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[Dot]

The thing that caused this debarkle is a 30 +yr old overseas student on a visa ending in December

[jon_d]

I heard it all started because someone wanted an egg on a topical pizza.

[Coolabah1au]

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[Dot]

Guy from the pizza shop has just been found dead covered in mushroom, pineapple, salami, prawns, cheese and capsicum, the cops reckon he topped himself .

[Coolabah1au]

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[Cuppa]

the employee will have to pay back taxes plus penalties as well as replay any excess payment received from social security.

Spanish post graduate student, who presumably , like all other overseas students caught here by the pandemic received absolutely no social security, or any other government support, forced to work mutiple low paid jobs just to survive. Pizza shop owner offers him a cash in hand job & says don't tell anyone. A very unfortunate situation which would probabl;y not have occurred if the government had offered some support to everyone in Australia affected by the pandemic if they needed it. They knew by not offering basic living support to people who needed it that they would increase the size of the already existing black economy proven multiple times over recent years to systematically rort working people because they could. They placed this Spanish bloke in that position, & now want to make an example of him by deporting him. Bastards! If he had been an Australian citizen with access to social security etc, I'd agree - make an example of him, but this just isn't fair or just. I reckon most, if not all pf us in his situation would most likely have done the same. By all means throw the book at an employer who has done the wrong thing, but give this bloke a chance. It's a mistake on his part, not a bloody crime. The government needs to recognise their role in this situation & address it before it happens again elsewhere.

[mottleemob]

Almost back to normal For now
Cheers Phil

[Dot]

telling lies does not make it right under any circumstances never mind the status of the culprit .

[T1 Terry]

Agree Cuppa, he was placed in a very difficult position that should never have happened. The pizza shop owner will be in big trouble for more than just paying cash in hand, but if the student has a visa that is about to expire, no hope of having it renewed and he should have realised working illegally would have jeopardised his visa renewal if he got caught ..... if he now has Covid, they can't very well deport him until he is cleared as safe to be out of isolation. At least he will get a free trip back home if the do deport him, he probably doesn't have the funds to buy the ticket himself. No doubt there will be more out cry that "tax payer $$" had to be used to send him home, but as you say, he was put in a no win position really, he needed to eat and pay rent etc

T1 Terry

[Newcastle George]

Where was it stated truthfully that he was being paid cash in hand?

George