Tianshanjun learned that New Zealand's Workers Protection Act not only greatly strengthens the criminal punishment mechanism, but also has new punishments for low-level violations - fines. "The introduction of fines will ensure that even lower-level crimes, such as refusal to provide employment documents, will be processed before they become more serious."
The Workers Protection Act also adds individuals who violate the rules to exploit immigrants on a blacklist, and once placed on the list, they will not be allowed to serve as managers and presidents of a company.
Last year, the government carried out the first set of reforms on the exploitation of migrant workers, including the establishment of 0800 numbers for reporting exploitation, reform of immigration visas, protecting immigrants reported exploitation from being deported within 6 months, and providing support services to victims of immigrant exploitation.
Radhakrishnan has also announced a new community-led pilot program to enable workers and employers to receive education related to employment interests. For example, many immigrant workers do not know that they can actually enjoy legal rights such as written employment contracts, meeting the minimum wage standards, paid rest and unpaid meal rest, sick leave, bereavement leave , parental leave, domestic violence leave, public holidays, 4 weeks paid annual leave, and demanding payrolls, and these rights can be enjoyed by illegal workers!
I have to say that the bill introduced by New Zealand has given immigrant workers a lot of confidence, allowing those exploited immigrant workers to stand up and defend their rights for themselves! Tian Shanjun felt that in this global battle to grab people, high salary is certainly attractive, but the protective policy that is tilted towards immigrant workers is more attractive. Otherwise, they promised a high salary during the interview, but when they went there, they found that they were selling dog meat with the title of sheep and had no place to cry. We workers must use rights protection tools to protect themselves and defend their rights!
