Businesses shelter unemployed foreign workers ineligible for coronavirus support and unable to travel
ABCSome businesses forced to lay off foreign workers unable to return home and ineligible for government assistance are feeling a "moral obligation" to help these people with few options. Key points: North west Australian businesses are providing accommodation and food for foreign workers they can no longer employ Foreign workers on temporary visas ineligible for government support Travel restrictions preventing unemployed people leaving small towns In Western Australia's far north, the managing director of the Kimberley Accommodation Group, Dannielle Hart, said the group had to lay-off around half of its employees, many on temporary work visas. "Staff we could no longer keep on are still trying to make arrangements to move on, but travel restrictions make this difficult," Ms Hart said. Mr Parsons said businesses in north west Australia and the foreign workers they had relied on for years to serve their local communities were not being properly supported by Australian governments.
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