{"id":651997,"date":"2026-11-05T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/651997\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:42:11","slug":"employment-relations-authority-orders-auckland-company-director-huy-quang-tran-to-pay-203k-for-migrant-worker-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/651997\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Relations Authority orders Auckland company director Huy Quang Tran to pay $203k for migrant worker breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">HERG supplied painters and plasterers to construction sites in Auckland and Christchurch before going into liquidation in March last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Jeanie Borsboom, acting head of the Labour Inspectorate, said the ERA\u2019s ruling sent a clear message that employers and company directors who breached employment standards could be held personally accountable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis case involved significant underpayments, unlawful employment premiums and serious record-keeping failures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEmployers cannot avoid their obligations through inadequate systems or poor record-keeping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe Labour Inspectorate will continue to investigate allegations of worker exploitation and take enforcement action where employers seek to profit at the expense of vulnerable workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">ERA member Robert Davies said the breaches were serious and had a significant impact on the workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe premiums are especially serious because the sums were substantial and the payments were connected to the prospect of employment in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI am satisfied that Tran was actively involved in HERG\u2019s breaches and had knowledge of the essential facts constituting them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stay ahead with the latest market moves, corporate updates, and economic insights by subscribing to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Business newsletter<\/a> \u2013 your essential weekly round-up of all the business news you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HERG supplied painters and plasterers to construction sites in Auckland and Christchurch before going into liquidation in March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19348,207869,49653,51,1124,1558,27252,1656,3936,1122,2082,2740,42,4475,319380,6721,3429,130,43,19719,6848,2744,319381,1123,131,1529,61,40,38,41,39,136321,9190,12767,4478],"class_list":["post-651997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-19348","tag-203k","tag-affecting","tag-auckland","tag-authority","tag-been","tag-breaches","tag-company","tag-director","tag-employment","tag-for","tag-former","tag-headlines","tag-hire","tag-huy","tag-labour","tag-migrant","tag-more","tag-news","tag-ordered","tag-orders","tag-pay","tag-quang","tag-relations","tag-than","tag-three","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tran","tag-vietnamese","tag-worker","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}