10 seasonal migrant workers from Fiji exploited in New Zealand

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A Canterbury asparagus cultivator Christopher Gray has been fined $26,000 for abusing 13 laborers, of which 10 were occasional transient specialists from Fiji.

The Employment Relations Authority in NZ recently requested Gray, a sole merchant working as Motukarara Asparagus, to compensate $50,000 to 13 specialists for unlawful derivations, the lowest pay permitted by law unpaid debts, and occasion pay privileges.

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The power said most laborers were helpless against abuse, living in New Zealand under the occasional traveler plot.

The Labor Inspectorate discovered a few specialists were paid dependent on the measure of asparagus they picked during the 2017 collect season, at a pace of $2.50 a kilogram.

The power said punishments were intended to rebuff and discourage, and set at a level to support consistence with least principles.

-FBC NEws
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