Across the Western world globalised hiring practices trespass the rights of locals in hiring practices of mid to large scale employers. Most egregious is placement of foreign workers in traditional ‘entry-level’ jobs for school-leavers and school age people looking to commence employment opportunities. Not only school leavers, but also long term unemployed, mothers seeking re-entry low-skilled jobs and retirement age people seeking part time work to supplement pensions and savings.
NACLC members hold the view that employers have a responsibility to hire locals for a variety of skill level jobs over international workers. Despite national employment and immigration laws, regulations and practices that appear uniformly across the Western world to facilitate trespass on local job seekers by international hiring, Common Law and Equity remedies are available to individuals with the right assistance.
NACLC further believes that employment markets across the Western world need to regularise and conform to international practice in preferencing local workers for local jobs, local training opportunities and local promotion. Where it is acceptable for countries like China and India, amongst many non-Western countries, to restrict jobs, industry access, training and education to local people only, so too must Western countries correct the trespass of ‘globalisation’ in hiring practices. Governments appear resistant to these calls, so it is incumbent upon the people to seek just outcomes.
Western nations stand alone in the world in trespassing the work rights and opportunities of its heritage and indigenous citizens. These are crimes of malfeasance and misfeasance by the various operations of regulations and policies. However, as organisations with a duty to perform watchdog functions, such as trade unions, watchdog agencies and tribunals of administrative and judicial oversight, captured by the ‘woke’ correctness of globalisation of hiring practices, interests of citizens trespassed go untouched and ignored.
This NACLC campaign, beyond assisting citizens of Western nations trespassed by governments and corporations in globalised hiring practices, advocates for system correction, with enforcement of present rules protecting the preferential work rights of citizens and introducing new laws and regulations to roll back the harm and wrongdoings of international hiring trespass on citizens. Model countries to emulate include Thailand and Japan, where employment and immigration laws strictly prohibit access of international workers to extensive employment roles and industries.
NACLC is aware that permanent migration by employment pathways into Western countries has incentivized corruption, leading to mulitple layers of trespass on citizens where international workers pay bribes to employers, or employers abuse immigration laws to provide employement to internatioanl workers in return for cash payments, instead of training and developing local workers. Whilst this corruption has been public knowledge, and known to Western governments, for decades the practice appears to have worsened in recent times. NACLC members advocate for curbs to international hiring practices and to strengthen existing laws to provide for only temporary employment for international workers where clear high-skill labour shortages are evident, and that mandatory return conditions upon end of employment agreement or termination of employment occurs – in line with (non-Western) international standard practice. Further measures to prevent corruption and trespass on citizens requires removal of pathway to permanent residence through employment arrangements. It is intended that in doing so, Western governments will be forced to reduce corruption of unlawful payments for permanent residence – a trespass that has plagued Western countries for decades.
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Members in countries across the Western personally, or through the experience of friends and family, identify trespasses in their local community from international hiring. Where such hiring practices are not justifiable, for example low-skilled, ‘entry-level’ jobs as supermarkets staffed with international workers where young local school-leavers find difficulty in getting a job, trespass is very likely to have occurred.
NACLC will provide education and support for trespassed persons to seek information and clarification from employers to ascertain whether actual trespass has taken place. Further avenues of follow-through will be provided to the trespassed person and multiple possible pathways of remedy explored.
Ultimately, persons are expected to pursue just outcomes and remedy through self-help, and NACLC is to provide support, learning and education and, where required, direct or indirect advocacy support and wider community engagement.