NZ: Migrant workers allege a lack of access to justice after experiencing abuse by Tork Engineering; incl. cos. comments
摘要
日期: 2024年7月13日
地點: 紐西蘭
企業
Tork Engineering - Employer , Chorus - Other Value Chain Entity受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 印度 , 工程 , Men , Unknown migration status ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 印度 , 工程 , Men , Undocumented migrants )議題
Poverty Wages , 招聘費用 , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Wage Theft回應
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後續行動: Chorus cancelled the contract for Tork and compensated the two workers who spoke up NZ$10,000. In February 2024 Tork was liquidated for failing to provide for taxes. Tork's owner denied wrongdoing. A Chorus spokesperson said the company hired ethical investigators to investigate but was frustrated the government did not do more.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2024年7月13日
地點: 紐西蘭
企業
Safe Scaffolding - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 , 建築 , Gender not reported , Unknown migration status )議題
招聘費用資訊來源: News outlet
“Evidence, witnesses, recordings: Why didn’t INZ act on alleged exploitation?”
…He gave four interviews to Immigration New Zealand (INZ) about how he’d paid a ‘premium’ for his job, been hugely underpaid…
…he agency only gave Seemar’s boss a formal warning…
Both men had been working in Auckland on the national fibre broadband rollout for a subcontractor called Tork Engineering, owned by businessman Junaid Shaik.
They complained to Chorus, which oversaw the fibre programme and so was Tork’s ultimate boss. Chorus in turn hired ethical labour investigators AIM CRI, and the two men told them their story…
… while he often worked more than 60 hours a week, Seemar was initially paid for just 20 and instructed to return $400 a week in cash to the business….
… Chorus duly cancelled Tork’s contract and dipped into a welfare trust account to pay Muzammil and Seemar $10,000 each in compensation…
…He says Chorus was “running to keep up with demand, and the bit we missed ... we didn’t pick up the risk of migrant exploitation. Frankly, we didn’t understand it…
… a new company, Safe Scaffolding, was set up. It was registered to Shaik’s home address …
Garg says Shaik had no involvement in the company…
Junaid Shaik denies any wrongdoing…