Foreigners On Skilled Work Visa Plan Face Deportation
October 18, 2007
More workers face deportation to a bleak future
Sydney Morning Herald, October 18, 2007
Eighteen Mongolian timber workers face financial ruin after the Federal Government banned their Queensland employer from using foreign labour after finding that he had breached the rules of the skilled worker visa scheme.
The workers face being deported to China within a month after the Immigration Department told NK Collins in Toowoomba that it was banned from using the controversial 457 visa scheme for three years.That decision followed a Herald investigation in August into the death of one of the company’s Chinese employees, Guo Jian Dong, who was killed by a falling tree while felling cypress pine on a remote property in western Queensland in June.
