Imported labour driving down Australian pay and conditions
'Imported' Indonesian workers have allegedly been paid as little as $40 a day to dig ditches in the South Australian desert.
Drilling company Halliburton Australia employed a team of Indonesians for labouring jobs at its gas extraction operations in the Cooper Basin late last year.
Australians who worked alongside the Indonesians said the imported staff worked 80 days straight, were housed in poor work camp accommodation and had some meals laced with pork so they were unfit for the Muslim employees to eat.
Halliburton last week confirmed the global company employs imported workers.
[Despite three days of requests to Halliburton in Australia and the U.S., they have not answered the claims.]
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