Migrant staff worked up to 98-hour weeks but paid for 40; Cliff Curtis pleads guilty to drink-driving; and coalition deal-breakers
Migrant motel staff worked up to 98-hour weeks but were paid for 40
Jian Li — who was the owner-operator of Fei Huang Tenga Da Ltd, trading as 315 Motel Riccarton — was sentenced to seven and a half months' home detention in the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to seven migrant exploitation charges. A request by his lawyer for community detention was declined because of the seriousness of the offending.
An Immigration NZ investigation found four migrant workers employed as managers were required to live on-site and effectively run the motel operation, including staffing reception for 14 hours every day, between February 2017 and December 2021.
Cliff Curtis admits charges after crashing his Tesla, injuring taxi driver
Kiwi actor Cliff Curtis has pleaded guilty to drink-driving after crashing his Tesla, leaving a taxi driver seriously injured in central Auckland.
The 58-year-old admitted causing injury while driving with excess blood alcohol and reckless driving during a video appearance in the Auckland District Court this afternoon.
The charges related to a crash at the intersection of Jellicoe St and Halsey St in Wynyard Quarter on September 23.
Tobacco, rent and rates: Where voters part ways with their parties
The coalition government scrapped New Zealand’s generational tobacco-sales ban, but Vote Compass data has found it's the issue where National, ACT and NZ First voters are furthest from the parties they support.
While all three parties are opposed to a lifetime ban on selling tobacco to anyone born after 2009, the average response among people intending to vote for each of them is supportive of the idea.
The difference is greatest for National. Its supporters lean further towards supporting a tobacco ban based on age than those backing ACT or NZ First.
Watch: CCTV captures customer violence in NZ supermarkets as thefts rise
In confronting footage, one woman threatened to slash staff members' throats with a knife.
ONE COALITION RED LINE
The list of parties New Zealand’s leaders are willing to work with is getting shorter, with coalition deal-breakers emerging as a defining theme of this election campaign.
Here's who has ruled in — or out — working with who. So far.
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