A political commentary on Labour's cautious approach to supporting the India Free Trade Agreement, focusing on concerns over unsecured migration provisions, student work rights, worker exploitation, and weakened labor inspections.
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There are two issues. There are student numbers and they have work rights with those access. So those numbers are not capped. There was a little bit of confusion. The Minister said they were capped. They're not actually capped. Of course we have the ability to control the quality of the educational institutes. institutes making sure that they're not shonky so there is an ability but we've got to have work inspect uh labor inspectors out there making sure that that abuse is not occurring modern slavery legislation is something that we raised the government committed to it's a bill now that that two member from labor a member from national have agreed it's in the order paper but the government bumped that bill down the order paper that's the modern slavery legislation we want want to pick back up so that you know these things are being dealt with properly in New Zealand and we're not opening the door to a lot of well-meaning well-intended Indians coming into the country who will be exploited that's what's happened in the past across other nations too we don't want it to be a repeat yes
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reduced oversight increases abuse risk
Damien O'Connor: Labour's Trade Spokesperson on Labour's hesitance to support the India Free Trade AgreementSpotted something wrong on this page? Report a correction.
