The company is gone. The bill is not. Huy Quang Tran, sole director of liquidated Auckland labour-hire firm High-End Renov Group Ltd (HERG), has been ordered by the Employment Relations Authority to pay $203,469.89 over breaches affecting three Vietnamese migrant workers.
The message for anyone running a visa-dependent workforce is simple. Migrant-worker compliance is now a personal liability, and putting the company into liquidation does not make it go away.
A loan that was really a job price
HERG supplied painters and plasterers to construction sites in Auckland and Christchurch. Two of the three workers each paid $30,000 offshore to secure jobs under the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) scheme. Tran…