'Blatant exploitation': Migrant workers packed in freezing, damp rooms for $150 a week
Résumé
Date indiquée: 8 Aoû 2022
Lieu: Nouvelle-Zélande
Entreprises
Laconic - EmployerConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: 15
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Lieu inconnu , Agriculture/alimentation/boissons/tabac/pêche : Général , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Precarious/Unsuitable Living ConditionsRéponse
Response sought: Non
Type de source: News outlet
Résumé
Date indiquée: 8 Aoû 2022
Lieu: Nouvelle-Zélande
Autre
Not Reported ( Cabinets de recrutement ) - EmployerConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: 11
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( 11 - Lieu inconnu , Agriculture/alimentation/boissons/tabac/pêche : Général , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Precarious/Unsuitable Living ConditionsRéponse
Response sought: Non
Type de source: News outlet
Résumé
Date indiquée: 8 Aoû 2022
Lieu: Nouvelle-Zélande
Entreprises
Vine Strength - EmployerConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: Chiffre inconnu
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( 1 - Vanuatu , Agriculture/alimentation/boissons/tabac/pêche : Général , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage Theft , Accès aux médicaments , MaladieRéponse
Réponse demandée : Oui, par Stuff
Lien externe vers la réponse: (En savoir plus)
Mesures prises: 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.”
Type de source: 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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