NZ: Vietnamese cleaner takes out NZ 35,000 loan to cover recruitment charges for job at co. Voda, and allegedly not given promised work or pay after arrival; incl. co comment
Résumé
Date indiquée: 12 Avr 2024
Lieu: Nouvelle-Zélande
Entreprises
Voda - EmployerConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: Chiffre inconnu
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Viêt Nam , Nettoyage et entretien , Women , Documented migrants )Enjeux
Frais de recrutement , Contract Substitution , Accès à l'information , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Irregular Work , Wage TheftRéponse
Réponse demandée : Oui, par Journalist
Lien externe vers la réponse: (En savoir plus)
Mesures prises: In a statement to Stuff, a man who identified himself as Scott Liu from Voda Limited, said Van worked for the company “briefly” for “[two] weeks during earlier [sic] December 2023”. “We have paid her according to the employment agreement. From the records, she worked on some of our construction sites for end project cleaning job,” Liu said. “After Christmas and New Year’s holiday, she sent a resignation letter to her supervisor as attached document shows. We have since ended the employment relationship with her.”
Type de source: News outlet
“Migrant worker fears losing $35k and her family home in alleged visa scam”
Thi Lam Sa Van was promised a better life for her family, earning more here in a month, than she could earn in Vietnam in a year.
Seizing the opportunity to lift herself and her family out of poverty, Van took out a 12-month bank loan of $521,762,715 Vietnamese dong (NZ$35,000), the fee she understood was required to secure an employment agreement with NZ company Voda Limited…
Trusting that would be her wage after securing the visa, Van calculated how long it would take to pay off the loan, and listed her house in Vietnam, occupied by her parents and two children, as collateral.
But Van says, since moving to New Zealand, she has not been provided the amount of work or pay as required on her visa, and is about to lose her family home if she doesn’t come up with money by April 17…
In a statement to Stuff, a man who identified himself as Scott Liu from Voda Limited, said Van worked for the company “briefly” for “[two] weeks during earlier [sic] December 2023”…
An INZ spokesperson said it was aware of cases where people from Vietnam were coming to New Zealand having paid “substantial amounts for a job and a visa”…