Migrant workers pay thousands for visas, only to be left without jobs
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 14 Jun 2023
Ubicación: Nueva Zelanda
Empresas
DJ Hotels - EmployerOtro
Not Reported ( Agencias de empleo ) - RecruiterAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 1
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 1 - China , Hoteles , Gender not reported )Temas
Tasas de contratación , Derecho a la alimentación , Poverty Wages , Precarious/Unsuitable Living ConditionsRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Journalist
Link externo para respuesta (Más información)
Medidas adoptadas: DJ Hotels director told Indian Weekender he had done nothing wrong.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 14 Jun 2023
Ubicación: Nueva Zelanda
Empresas
Beaver Homes - EmployerOtro
Not Reported ( Agencias de empleo ) - RecruiterAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 1
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 1 - China , Construcción , Gender not reported )Temas
Dismissal , Tasas de contrataciónRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Journalist
Link externo para respuesta (Más información)
Medidas adoptadas: The company director denied this and said he was aware that paying for work visas was common among the 20-30 workers he had hired during the previous year.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 14 May 2023
Ubicación: Nueva Zelanda
Otro
Not Reported ( Construcción ) - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 1
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 1 - China , Construcción , Gender not reported )Temas
Acceso a la información , Tasas de contratación , Contract SubstitutionRespuesta
Response sought: No
Medidas adoptadas: None reported.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Dozens of Chinese migrant workers are being left jobless and out-of-pocket after paying thousands of dollars for work visas, only to be given no work or dismissed by their employer shortly after they arrive in New Zealand.
Most of them have come into the country on the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) scheme, which started in July last year and was designed to help reduce exploitation. It required companies hiring overseas workers to show paperwork proving they were good migrant employers.
The visa abuse has been noticed by multiple agencies, including Immigration New Zealand (INZ), the Chinese Embassy and several community service groups...
Pastry cook Kesha Kong paid the equivalent of about $14,000 to an agent for her work visa.
In China, she met Johnson Yang who worked for a labour export company in the northern city of Weihai.
Kong said after arriving in Dunedin in late March, she had been given almost no work by her visa-tied accredited employer DJ Hotels Ltd...
DJ Hotels director Liu Jia said he had done nothing wrong, he could not initially give Kong work because of the delays opening a new store and she had no bank account or IRD number...
Sun Fudong was told his skills did not meet expectations and was given four weeks' notice to leave.
The 39-year-old came here to work as a concrete carpenter for accredited employer Beaver Homes Ltd, even though he had no experience.
He claimed both the agent and the employer told him that it did not matter when they interviewed him in August last year, and Sun paid the equivalent of around $16,000 for his visa to the agent in China...
But the director of the company Huang Lei, denied saying this, and denied getting a cut from the agent...