Chorus subcontractors in breach of visa, probe finds

The Labour Inspectorate says it has found several workers who were working in breach of their visa conditions and one overstayer during its probe of Chorus subcontractors building the ultra-fast broadband (UFB) network. But Crown Infrastructure Partners (CIP), the Crown-owned company managing the Government’s investment in UFB, said it was confident the core network hadn’t been compromised by the broader issue of the use of exploited migrant labour on the network build. CIP chief executive Graham Mitchell said the communal UFB network, which is partly funded by CIP, was ‘‘independently certified’’, so there should be no quality issues with it. CIP did health and safety inspections ‘‘and we haven’t seen a lot of migrant labour on the communal infrastructure’’, he said.