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TONGAN ENVOY CALLS FOR COMMUNICATION ON AUST GUEST WORKER SCHEME.
CANBERRA, March 2 Asia Pulse - Misunderstandings in Australia's Pacific Island guest worker scheme has led Tonga's High Commissioner to Australia to call for closer communication between groups responsible for Pacific Island guest workers, reports Radio Australia.
Fifty Tongans have been temporarily employed as fruit pickers in Australia, the first of more than 2,000 Pacific island farm labourers from Tonga, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Pacific trade union bodies and their Australian counterparts have expressed concern that the men are being paid casual rates, rather than being treated as full time employees as originally agreed on.
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