Buildhub disputes claims migrant workers not given jobs, hours
الملخص
Date Reported: 29 أغسطس 2023
الموقع: نيوزيلاندا
الشركات
Buildhub - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( 1 - شيلي , البناء , Men , Documented migrants ) , عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - كولومبيا , البناء , Gender not reported , Documented migrants ) , عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - أورجواي , البناء , Gender not reported , Documented migrants ) , عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - بوليفيا , البناء , Gender not reported , Documented migrants ) , عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - بيرو , البناء , Gender not reported , Documented migrants ) , عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - الأرجنتين , البناء , Gender not reported , Documented migrants )القضايا
رسوم التوظيف , Access to Justice & Legal Protection , الترهيب والتهديد , الحق في الغذاء , Poverty Wages , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Irregular Work , Contract Substitution , الحرمان من حرية التعبيرالرد
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
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الإجراءات المتخذة: The INZ cleared the company of the claims following an investigation. Buildhub, in an exclusive interview with Voices, said it acted in good faith with its workers and it was the workers who had been opting out of the work they were offered. The company denies the allegations. In response to the NZ Herald, the company says it takes the allegations very seriously but categorically denies it had exploited, scammed or “sold” people’s labour to other companies, or that the employees had no work. A lawyer for Buildhub said the company gathered information to assist with INZ’s investigation, and that it aimed to provide meaningful jobs for workers in New Zealand.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
A group of South American migrants have made complaints about job contracts they signed with Buildhub, as part of the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV)...
Alfredo claimed Buildhub gave himself and others false promises that convinced him to travel to New Zealand and that since arriving here he had been mistreated.
He came to New Zealand on a three-year Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV).
The visa processes in Chile, after being accepted for a job in New Zealand, cost about US$5000 (NZ$8400), he said.
That did not include flight fares.
Some people he knew had paid between US$4000 and US$11,000 for the visas to New Zealand on the Accredited Employer Work Visa scheme, he said.
Alfredo said he was issued a warning by Buildhub for being part of a WhatsApp group with co-workers in which they discussed their dissatisfaction with their employer.
It was a matter of freedom of speech, he said.
Several people from the group of families interviewed by Voices, also South American, said they came to New Zealand to end up being offered work different to what they believed they had signed up for or for fewer hours than expected...
Buildhub, in an exclusive interview with Voices, said it acted in good faith with its workers and it was the workers who had been opting out of the work they were offered...
[Director Ricardo] Corona-Perez was told some of the workers said they were not able to get that number of hours, that Buildhub had not given them that number of hours, resulting in not being able to earn enough money to support their families.
He was asked if this was true and replied: "It's not true and not accurate at all".
Everything that Buildhub had promised to people or that was under the employment relationship, the company always complied with, he said...