NZ: Restaurant owners who exploited migrant workers, incl. workers from India, ordered to pay over NZD 420,000
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 14 Dic 2023
Ubicación: Nueva Zelanda
Empresas
Prisha's Hospitality - Employer , Royal Cambridge Indian Restaurant - Other Value Chain EntityAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: Número desconocido
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( Número desconocido - India , Restaurantes y Bares , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Wage Theft , Minimum WageRespuesta
Response sought: No
Medidas adoptadas: Employment Court ordered the owners to pay fines of over $420,000.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 14 Dic 2023
Ubicación: Nueva Zelanda
Empresas
Prisha's Hospitality - Employer , Roquette Restaurant and Bar - Other Value Chain EntityAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: Número desconocido
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( Número desconocido - India , Restaurantes y Bares , Gender not reported , Unknown migration status )Temas
Wage Theft , Minimum WageRespuesta
Response sought: No
Medidas adoptadas: The owners were ordered to pay a fine of over NZD 420,000.
Tipo de fuente: 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…