As at 3:00pm on 25 March 2020, there have been 2,423 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. There are more than 200 new cases coming up everday. The COVID-19 outbreak in Australia is an absolute health emergency and workplaces in Australia are dramasticly affected by it.

Victoria has been performing shutdown for almost a week. Working romotely is recommanded for public unless essential presence is required. Yet Monash College still tolerate internship companys asking PY students to come in for work when obiviously some of them can't follow Social Distancing Guidance in the workplace. PY students aren't even allowed to request leave because intership completion delayed will be one of the punishement for them. And that is something PY students can't afford to do so due to visa status or/and many other reasons.

Some of the PY students have already been granted to work remotely by their intership companies while some have not yet(may never will), regardless the severeness of COVID-19 outbreak.

I simply can't accept so far what Monash College has done to help my PY fellows. Some intership companies are taking advantage from PY students and Monash College hasn't reacted properly. I am here to suggest Monash College to take thorough measures as follow:

1. Contact ACS, Engineers Australia, CPA to request a period of leave for all PY students.

2. Send placement team staff to examine the intership company's ability to follow Social Distancing Guidance. And placement team should ask company to provide strong reasons for working onsite.

3. If intership companies fulfill the reqirements and can provide valid reason for their PY interns to go in for work, they should be asked to provide necessary supports to PY students to make students feel comfortable working on site.

4. Work with ACS, Engineers Australia, CPA to provide alternative solutions to have PY students trained and help them complete their intership on time.

5. More measures depending on situation.

This is not only for Monash Professional Year's students, but also for all Professional Year's students across Australia and employees working in unreasonable workplaces. Please help me to make us heard so that we can urge authorities to take proper action before it is too late. Since we have already seen Australia government's late and insufficient measures caused us. We can still save us from this outbreak.