Improving Palm
the Pacific Australia Labor Mobility Scheme
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Peter Mares’ Improving Palm examines the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme’s evolution, benefits and shortcomings, drawing on field visits and interviews with employers, workers and officials.
The report highlights problems including worker tied visas, overcrowded accommodation, barriers to healthcare and difficulties accessing superannuation.
Mares balances the scheme’s economic and developmental benefits for Pacific workers and Australian employers with practical reforms to increase worker agency, family accompaniment, Medicare access and easier job mobility.
He recommends regulatory adjustments that protect workers without making the scheme prohibitively costly for employers, and discusses implications for Pacific sending countries.
The report is grounded in policy expertise and aims to inform Australian government and stakeholders on improving PALM outcomes.
The report highlights problems including worker tied visas, overcrowded accommodation, barriers to healthcare and difficulties accessing superannuation.
Mares balances the scheme’s economic and developmental benefits for Pacific workers and Australian employers with practical reforms to increase worker agency, family accompaniment, Medicare access and easier job mobility.
He recommends regulatory adjustments that protect workers without making the scheme prohibitively costly for employers, and discusses implications for Pacific sending countries.
The report is grounded in policy expertise and aims to inform Australian government and stakeholders on improving PALM outcomes.
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