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
摘要
日期: 2024年4月12日
地点: 新西兰
企业
Voda - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 数字未知
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 越南 , 清洁与保养 , Women , Documented migrants )议题
招聘费 , Contract Substitution , 信息获取 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Irregular Work , Wage Theft回应
已邀请回应:是,由Journalist
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后续行动: 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.” Reporting in July 2024 revealed the worker remained indebted and unemployed.
信息来源: 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”…