'Blatant exploitation': Migrant workers packed in freezing, damp rooms for $150 a week
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 8 Aug 2022
Standort: Neuseeland
Unternehmen
Laconic - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: 15
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , Landwirtschaft/Nahrungsmittel/Getränke/Tabak/Fischerei: Allgemein , Gender not reported )Themen
Precarious/Unsuitable Living ConditionsAntwort
Response sought: Nein
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 8 Aug 2022
Standort: Neuseeland
Andere
Not Reported ( Arbeitsagenturen ) - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: 11
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( 11 - Location unknown , Landwirtschaft/Nahrungsmittel/Getränke/Tabak/Fischerei: Allgemein , Gender not reported )Themen
Precarious/Unsuitable Living ConditionsAntwort
Response sought: Nein
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 8 Aug 2022
Standort: Neuseeland
Unternehmen
Vine Strength - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( 1 - Vanuatu , Landwirtschaft/Nahrungsmittel/Getränke/Tabak/Fischerei: Allgemein , Gender not reported )Themen
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage Theft , Medikamentenzugang , KrankheitAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von Stuff
External link to response: (Find out more)
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: Vine Strength owner Ajay Gaur said the workers’ complaints were unnecessary. He said, “they’re just creating from the little issues to the big issue,” he said. “Every day they have new excuses, someone is sick, someone isn’t coming. Because they don’t want to work, they’re saying they’re having a bad experience.”
Art der Quelle: News outlet
8 August 2022
Migrant horticulture workers are being housed six men to a room, charged $150 a week to sleep in freezing and damp conditions which see them fall sick repeatedly, and then refused paid sick leave.
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Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner Saunoamaali'i Karanina Sumeo travelled to Blenheim incognito to investigate the workers’ living and employment conditions in July.
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Conditions are so bad, some of the workers say they are desperate to go home, but have been unable because they are in debt to their employers for flights, work clothing, or tools. Some have so many deductions from their pay each week, they end up with as little as $100.
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Sumeo said she witnessed multiple human rights violations, including the lack of freedom of movement (the workers had curfews), freedom of association (the workers were threatened against joining unions) and the right to culture (the workers aren’t allowed to drink kava, and are sometimes expected to work instead of going to church).
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