'Blatant exploitation': Migrant workers packed in freezing, damp rooms for $150 a week
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 8 Ago 2022
Ubicación: Nueva Zelanda
Empresas
Laconic - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 15
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( Número desconocido - Ubicación desconocida , Agricultura/Alimentos/Bebidas/Tabaco/Pesca: General , Gender not reported )Temas
Condiciones de vida precarias/inadecuadasRespuesta
Response sought: No
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 8 Ago 2022
Ubicación: Nueva Zelanda
Otro
Not Reported ( Agencias de empleo ) - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 11
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 11 - Ubicación desconocida , Agricultura/Alimentos/Bebidas/Tabaco/Pesca: General , Gender not reported )Temas
Condiciones de vida precarias/inadecuadasRespuesta
Response sought: No
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 8 Ago 2022
Ubicación: Nueva Zelanda
Empresas
Vine Strength - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: Número desconocido
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 1 - Vanuatu , Agricultura/Alimentos/Bebidas/Tabaco/Pesca: General , Gender not reported )Temas
Condiciones de vida precarias/inadecuadas , Robo de salarios , Acceso a medicinas , EnfermedadesRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Stuff
Link externo para respuesta (Más información)
Medidas adoptadas: 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.”
Tipo de fuente: 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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