Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
'Kia ora! Welcome to your job. It'll cost you $60k'
Cases of the most egregious migrant exploitation are now emerging in dribs and drabs through decisions by the Employment Relations Authority, indicating a tip of iceberg that should shame the nation and endanger our exports to countries that monitor the use of slave labour. But it doesn’t, and hasn’t. Yet.
This week, the ERA ruled the owner of Four Square Martina in Thames, Jaswinder Singh, had to pay $44,000 in penalties after he charged two workers from India $60,000 each for jobs at the supermarket in the Foodstuffs North Island Co-operative. The workers were repaid their $60,000 each…
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