Migrant workers' unpaid wages should go to government: Productivity Commission

By Jane Lee
Updated August 6 2015 - 2:13pm, first published 1:35pm
The Salvation Army's Jenny Stanger: ''It is unfair for workers to be firstly deprived of wages by unscrupulous employers and a further injustice for the government to then collect those stolen wages."  Photo: Anthony Johnson
The Salvation Army's Jenny Stanger: ''It is unfair for workers to be firstly deprived of wages by unscrupulous employers and a further injustice for the government to then collect those stolen wages." Photo: Anthony Johnson

The government would be paid wages that employers withheld from migrant workers, under a plan to prevent exploitation that victims' advocates say will allow Canberra to profit from forced labour.