{"id":11823,"date":"2024-11-06T06:10:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11823"},"modified":"2024-11-06T06:10:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:10:01","slug":"chinese-workers-still-waiting-for-answers-a-year-after-investigation-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11823","title":{"rendered":"Chinese workers still waiting for answers a year after investigation began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese workers say they have been cheated thousands of dollars and are still waiting for promised full-time jobs more than a year after authorities began\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/503481\/auckland-labour-hire-firm-investigated-by-immigration-nz-after-exploitation-allegations-from-migrants\">investigating their employer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least 100 workers had accredited employer work visas (AEWV) with Prolink NZ Ltd, but some have remained jobless, while others were not working enough hours to get by.<\/p>\n<p>Many claim to have paid service fees to Cook Huang &#8211; a licensed immigration advisor and owner of the Auckland immigration company Everlast Consultancy 2013 Corporation Ltd &#8211; who voluntarily surrendered his licence in September and is now before the Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ has sighted five Prolink NZ workers&#8217; payments to Huang, and a woman who worked with him who RNZ has chosen not to name.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration NZ (INZ) said it received the first complaint about Prolink NZ Ltd in May 2023, followed by further complaints in August last year, and had sent questionnaires to more than 100 migrant workers with AEWVs tied to Prolink NZ Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>It refused to comment on RNZ&#8217;s questions about the progress of the investigation, saying that it would compromise the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>INZ said it suspended Prolink NZ&#8217;s accreditation in September last year.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese workers say they have been cheated thousands of dollars and are still waiting for promised full-time jobs more than a year after authorities began\u00a0investigating their employer. At least 100 workers had accredited employer work visas (AEWV) with Prolink NZ Ltd, but some have remained jobless, while others were not working enough hours to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11825,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions\/11825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}