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Workers from Vanuatu back on Bundaberg farms, but others risk deportation for absconding
A small group of Vanuatu nationals are again working legally on a sweet potato farm in Bundaberg, but the whereabouts and visa status of more than 30 others remains unknown.
Key points:
- Thirty-six workers remain outside the SWP after absconding, but 15 are back on the job
- Concerns have been raised about the visa status of the workers who have absconded
- One of the workers says she left because of problems with the terms of employment
Last month Vanuatu’s High Commissioner to Australia revealed details about an employment dispute involving 51 workers who were no longer employed under the federal seasonal worker program (SWP).
It is understood many of them absconded from their employer in Bundaberg in September in search of better pay and work…
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