'Blatant exploitation': Migrant workers packed in freezing, damp rooms for $150 a week
Resumo
Data informada: 8 Ago 2022
Localização: Nova Zelândia
Empresas
Laconic - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 15
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Localização desconhecida , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Precarious/Unsuitable Living ConditionsResposta
Response sought: Não
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 8 Ago 2022
Localização: Nova Zelândia
Outros
Not Reported ( Agências de Emprego ) - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 11
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 11 - Localização desconhecida , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Precarious/Unsuitable Living ConditionsResposta
Response sought: Não
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 8 Ago 2022
Localização: Nova Zelândia
Empresas
Vine Strength - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Vanuatu , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage Theft , Acesso a medicamentos , EnfermidadesResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Stuff
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Medidas tomadas: 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.”
Tipo de fonte: 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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