By Claire Hibbit
Professor Allan Fels, who led the former 7-Eleven’s Fels Wage Fairness Panel, will lead a new Migrant Workers Taskforce, set up to advise Federal Government on how to protect overseas workers from exploitation.
Professor Fels was also a former chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
“A number of recent high-profile cases where vulnerable migrant workers have been underpaid and exploited at work have exposed unacceptable gaps in the system,” Minister Cash said.
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