Fear of limits on asylum seeker right to work

Weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that a ban on asylum seekers working was unconstitutional, the Government has been accused of seeking “caveats” to its implementation.

About 3,000 asylum seekers may now be eligible to work, and there have been calls for those affected to be given the right to work after six months.

That is the time limit within which they are supposed to receive a decision on their application, though 4,000 of the people in direct provision have been here for longer than that period.