No more bribes for jobs

We welcome the investigation into employers paying their migrant employees as little as $3 an hour. 

More also needs to be done about the employers, some of them large and well known, who take thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for “employing” immigrants so that their visa conditions are fulfilled. The affected migrant workers effectively pay for their own “wages”.  The exploitation of vulnerable immigrant workers through abusive pay rates, and taking bribes, must stop. If migrant workers complain, they risk losing the thousands they have paid, their cultural network, their job, and their right to live in New Zealand. These unfair practices also victimise those who are legitimately able to work in New Zealand as their opportunity to work is removed by the exploitation of migrants. 

Much more needs to be done to deal with these issues.