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Summer s back on: Working visa rollover allows motels and restaurants to reopen Newsroom 21/12/2020 © Provided by Newsroom
A change to working visa rules allows struggling businesses to hire back immigrant chefs, duty managers and housekeepers – but they concede longer term solution must be to recruit and train locals
Melina Borda is one of 192,000 migrant workers trapped by Covid. Her father died last month in a motorbike crash, and she couldn t get a flight home to Argentina to farewell him. Yet when her working visa expires next week, the hardworking 27-year-old faced being trapped here with no means to support herself.
The Nelson motel housekeeper, her partner Federico Medail and other migrant workers might have suffered in silence – except their predicament was also a threat to New Zealand s economic recovery. New Zealand has been facing a summer in which small businesses – hotels, motels, restaurants, vineyards – can t trade and rejuvenate because they
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