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Satwinder Sam Singh is seeking tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages and compensation from his former employer.
A liquor licensing committee has told a community activist it will not hear his allegations that two liquor-store owning brothers exploited their migrant worker staff.
Stuff reported in June how three workers alleged they were paid as little as $8 an hour and were collectively owed $400,000 in missing wages and entitlements by Hamilton-based brothers Taranjeet and Jaspreet Singh Janda. Former Salvation Army worker Colin Bridle planned to use the
Stuff story and call one of the former bottle store workers as his witness when he opposed the renewal of the liquor licence for the Janda brothers’ Thirsty Liquor store in Tokoroa.