'Blatant exploitation': Migrant workers packed in freezing, damp rooms for $150 a week
요약
보고된 날짜: 2022년 8월 8일
위치: 뉴질랜드
기업 페이지
Laconic - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 15
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 위치를 알 수 없음 , 농업/식품/음료/담배/어업: 일반 , Gender not reported )토픽들
불안정한/불적합한 생활환경결과
Response sought: 아니오
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2022년 8월 8일
위치: 뉴질랜드
기타
Not Reported ( 중개 업소 ) - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 11
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 11 - 위치를 알 수 없음 , 농업/식품/음료/담배/어업: 일반 , Gender not reported )토픽들
불안정한/불적합한 생활환경결과
Response sought: 아니오
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2022년 8월 8일
위치: 뉴질랜드
기업 페이지
Vine Strength - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - 바누아투 , 농업/식품/음료/담배/어업: 일반 , Gender not reported )토픽들
불안정한/불적합한 생활환경 , 임금 착취 , 의약품에 대한 제한적 접근 , 질병결과
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시행된 조치: 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.”
출처: 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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