'Blatant exploitation': Migrant workers packed in freezing, damp rooms for $150 a week
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Date Reported: 8 Авг 2022
Местонахождение: Новая Зеландия
Компании
Laconic - EmployerЗатронуто
Total individuals affected: 15
Мигранты и рабочие-иммигранты: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , Сельское хозяйство/продукты питания/напитки/табачные изделия/рыболовство: Общее , Gender not reported )Темы
Precarious/Unsuitable Living ConditionsОтвет
Response sought: Нет
Вид источника: News outlet
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Date Reported: 8 Авг 2022
Местонахождение: Новая Зеландия
Другое
Not Reported ( Кадровые агентства ) - EmployerЗатронуто
Total individuals affected: 11
Мигранты и рабочие-иммигранты: ( 11 - Location unknown , Сельское хозяйство/продукты питания/напитки/табачные изделия/рыболовство: Общее , Gender not reported )Темы
Precarious/Unsuitable Living ConditionsОтвет
Response sought: Нет
Вид источника: News outlet
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Date Reported: 8 Авг 2022
Местонахождение: Новая Зеландия
Компании
Vine Strength - EmployerЗатронуто
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Мигранты и рабочие-иммигранты: ( 1 - Вануату , Сельское хозяйство/продукты питания/напитки/табачные изделия/рыболовство: Общее , Gender not reported )Темы
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage Theft , Доступ к лекарствам , БолезньОтвет
Response sought: Yes, by Stuff
External link to response: (Find out more)
Принятые меры: 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.”
Вид источника: 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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