University Report: International Students and Work in a Global Society

This report explores the challenges international students face when taking on part-time jobs in Australia to support their studies. The paper delves into issues such as wage discrepancies, mistreatment, and violations of labor laws. It examines how international students, categorized into ethnic and mainstream groups within the food service industry, experience these challenges. The report highlights instances where students are underpaid, forced to work extra hours without proper compensation, and subjected to unfair working conditions. It also references existing research and identifies areas for further investigation, emphasizing the need for improved protections and fair treatment of international students in the workplace. The report underscores the importance of upholding labor laws and ensuring that international students are not exploited while pursuing their education.

Running head: WORK IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY
Work in a global society
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
Primary focus explored in the paper................................................................................................2
Key arguments.................................................................................................................................2
Issues emerge out of the paper.........................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

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Primary focus explored in the paper
The purpose of the paper is to shed light on the various factors where international
students who take up casual jobs to support their experience regarding studying, food and
lodging in an foreign country, are having some real issues n the workplace. Many instances have
been seen, where these students were often mistreated in the workplace or they were not given
the wages they deserve and many other cases (Martin et al. 2012). The initial part of the paper
deals with the profile of the various students working in Australia to support their needs. In the
next part, various facts have been discovered regarding the troubles that the foreign students go
through while working part time. In the next part of the paper it has been elaborated how the
students find the work conditions and how some illegal practices are being done regarding
paying wages and how they are mistreated at work sometimes. The fourth section highlights and
categorizes the international students in two segments in the food service industry and one is
labeled as ethnic and the other one is labeled as mainstream (Choudaha and Chang 2012). Then
the final part of the paper explores the various challenges that can be faced while doing further
research regarding this topic.
Key arguments
There are several instances where the foreign students who are studying in Australia and
working part time to be able to pay the bills, are facing some troubles related to their work.
Sometimes they do not receive the money they deserve and sometimes they are forced to work
for some extra hours and those are no included officially and they get the money for their extra
efforts in cash. This is a direct breach of labor laws of Australia and one cannot force someone to
work more being a part timer as that is not approved by the labor laws (Popov et al. 2012).

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Augmenting these facts, there are many officials who stated that there are no malpractices
regarding these part time employment in the land of Australia and the part timers are in general
happy with their work and remuneration. 21 dollars per hour is a cut off wage for the casual
workers who are working in the lowest post in the hierarchy of any organization, but there are
several instances where the employees get only a sum of 16 or 17 dollars per hour. This is
something where these organizations are breaching the labor laws and these are punishable
offence (Campbell, Boese and Tham 2016). These practices need to be stopped immediately as it
is the government’s duty to protect the students who come from other countries in search of a
better career.
Issues emerge out of the paper
Reading the paper, it can be said that there have been some instances where the foreign
students were harassed in their workplace and sometimes they did not receive the amount of
remuneration they deserved. These are something which is not at all accepted at any cost.
Students who have some problems regarding monetary issues they work casually to support the
costs and if they are mistreated or fooled in the workplaces that is a serious matter of concern for
the government. These are the basic issues that emerge out after reading the paper thoroughly.

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References
Campbell, I., Boese, M. and Tham, J.C., 2016. Inhospitable workplaces? International students
and paid work in food services. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 51(3), pp.279-298.
Choudaha, R. and Chang, L., 2012. Trends in international student mobility.
Martin, M.O., Mullis, I.V., Foy, P. and Stanco, G.M., 2012. TIMSS 2011 International Results in
Science. International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. Herengracht
487, Amsterdam, 1017 BT, The Netherlands.
Popov, V., Brinkman, D., Biemans, H.J., Mulder, M., Kuznetsov, A. and Noroozi, O., 2012.
Multicultural student group work in higher education: An explorative case study on challenges as
perceived by students. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 36(2), pp.302-317.