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Ni-Vanuatu vineyard workers say contractor underpaid them

Monday, April 3rd, 2017

Pacific Island vineyard workers thought coming to New Zealand would be a blessing, but after a season of low pay and broken promises they don’t think they will be back.

They say the pay rates set out in the contracts they signed back in Vanuatu have been ignored, leaving them around $300 a week short of what they were earning the season before. Continue reading

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