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August 29, 2022
Iwi doing pastoral care for RSE workers
Peter Verschaffelt
Posted On August 29, 2022
Download AudioThe chairperson of Ngāti Kahungunu, Bayden Barber, says iwi have an important role to play in looking after RSE workers.
Poor working and living conditions of some workers brought in from the Pacific under the registered seasonal employer scheme were exposed in a recent television investigation.
Mr Barber says in Hawke’s Bay the iwi has been working with councils and businesses to ensure the workers have adequate housing, transport and pastoral care.
“It’s all about having that full wraparound service for our people when they come over because they can’t be an island, isolated to that kind of working environment. They need to be part of the wider community, linking in with the churches, hahi, sports, rugby, all of that, so we don’t like to see those types of reports,” he says.
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