'Blatant exploitation': Migrant workers packed in freezing, damp rooms for $150 a week
摘要
日期: 2022年8月8日
地點: 紐西蘭
企業
Laconic - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 15
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 , 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業:綜合 , Gender not reported )議題
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions回應
Response sought: 否
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2022年8月8日
地點: 紐西蘭
其他
Not Reported ( 職業介紹所 ) - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 11
移民和移民工人: ( 11 - 地點未知 , 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業:綜合 , Gender not reported )議題
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions回應
Response sought: 否
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2022年8月8日
地點: 紐西蘭
企業
Vine Strength - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 萬那杜 , 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業:綜合 , Gender not reported )議題
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage Theft , 藥物可及性 , 疾病回應
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後續行動: 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.”
資訊來源: 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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