Chinese migrant construction workers tell harrowing stories of being overworked and underpaid.
Some Chinese migrants lured here by the promise of lucrative jobs instead have their wages stolen and their rights trampled, report Steve Kilgallon and Lucy Xia. Zhao eats an egg a day with rice porridge. It’s all he can afford. He’s owed $14,000 in wages by various employers and was left without income for a work-related injury, for which he received no compensation. It’s not the return Zhao and his wife expected when they invested their life savings - about $80,000 - into moving to New Zealand after being promised highly-paid, secure work in our booming building sector.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Expiration dates and inevitable computer glitches - what challenges our historic vaccine roll out
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There are no new Covid-19 cases in the community - the Government says it will be going deep into Wednesday before making a call on the status of the country s alert levels.
There are no new Covid-19 cases in the community - the Government says it will be going deep into Wednesday before making a call on the status of the country s alert levels.
Nicholas Jones is an investigative reporter at the New Zealand Herald nicholas.jones@nzherald.co.nz@nickjonesnzer
Leaked document suggests NHS England overhaul. (PA/Canva) A leaked document suggests that Boris Johnson is planning major reforms in a proposed extensive shake up of NHS England. The proposed changes would see more power placed in the hands of politicians, as well as reduce the role of the private sector in the health service. The reforms are scheduled to come into practive next year and could see large parts of legislation brought in under the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition in 2012 undone. The draft of the White Paper states that “NHS England’s proposals form the foundation of this Bill”.