NZ: Restaurant owners who exploited migrant workers, incl. workers from India, ordered to pay over NZD 420,000
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 14 Dez 2023
Standort: Neuseeland
Unternehmen
Prisha's Hospitality - Employer , Royal Cambridge Indian Restaurant - Other Value Chain EntityBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Indien , Restaurants & Bars , Gender not reported , Unknown migration status )Themen
Wage Theft , Minimum WageAntwort
Response sought: Nein
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: Employment Court ordered the owners to pay fines of over $420,000.
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 14 Dez 2023
Standort: Neuseeland
Unternehmen
Prisha's Hospitality - Employer , Roquette Restaurant and Bar - Other Value Chain EntityBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Indien , Restaurants & Bars , Gender not reported , Unknown migration status )Themen
Wage Theft , Minimum WageAntwort
Response sought: Nein
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: The owners were ordered to pay a fine of over NZD 420,000.
Art der Quelle: News outlet
“Restaurant Owners Who Exploited Migrant Workers Must Pay Over $420,000”
The former owners of two North Island restaurants who exploited migrant workers and breached numerous minimum employment standards have been ordered to pay more than $330,000 in penalties, compensation and arrears. The exploitation of the seven migrant workers, who were of Indian descent, took place between December 2017 and December 2018.
Employment Court Judge JC Holden also ordered Ajay Sharma and Kavita Sharma, who previously owned Prisha’s Royal Cambridge Indian Restaurant in Cambridge and Roquette Restaurant and Bar in Whakatane, to pay costs of $78,429, taking the total they must pay to more than $420,000. …
Head of Compliance and Enforcement, Labour Inspectorate, Simon Humphries, believed it was appropriate that the owners of the two restaurants had been made to pay significant compensation to the workers they had exploited, as well as pay the wage arrears they owed….
The Labour Inspectorate was also successful in obtaining a Freezing Order against the defendants, allowing the Labour Inspectorate to secure funds from the defendants to pay the arrears and compensation costs in full to the employees…