Mordusia

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Report on New Englian worker mistreatment published

Government ashamed of mistreatment and apologises

March 5715 (backdated)

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Rechtenburg – For a long time Mordusian companies, especially those who use manual labour and dock companies, have exploited New Englians living and working in Mordusia, this came out in a definitive report on the matter last Wednesday. Prime-Minister Katt Wells and Minister for Labour and minister for employment Mandy Hailsworth brought the report to parliament.
 
Last year the House of Commons agreed upon an investigation and making a detailed report on the decades old problem of exploitation of New Englian workers in Mordusia. Years ago, reports from New Englian news sources brought the situation to light, with the then ruling governments finding some violations and unacceptable conditions, but never to the level as claimed in the news report. Members of the Labor party however never believed this and with the election of one of them to Prime-Minister and full inquiry was launched.
 
 It took two years to investigate and write the report. The report on the situation of the New Englans is clear and shocking. Many of them work against too low wages, thanks in part to no federal minimum wage and lacking labour law checks for state labour laws. It seems the main problem is the federal labour inspections were understaffed, ignorant and not focused on labour intensive workplaces, especially those who more often than not employ foreign workers. That coupled with the fact that they only inspected federal labour laws and not local laws as well has caused the current situation that up until this day, according to the report, a vast number of foreign workers from low educated backgrounds or from less wealthy or developed countries are still being exploited. The main group of these that came to light were the New Englians, who make up a great number of the foreign workers in Mordusia.
 
In parliament a heated debate came about on how the government could miss such gross violations on labour laws and how the labour inspection never found such gross mistreatment of New Englian workers. The prime-minister said in the debate that ‘’it’s simply shameful that none of the previous governments nor any governmental agency picked up on this dark and hurtful crime’’. She was followed by every leader in the House who stated their remorse and shock on how far the situation had gone. With minister Hailsworth promising swift and decisive action against companies who still violate the rules and coming with laws and bills to ‘’sharpen the processes of the labour inspection and to make sure this never happens again. Next to changes of laws and bills the government will according to the minister seek to aid the families who were hurt by the situation and help them to new jobs or to improve their labour conditions significantly.
 
Finally, the Prime-Minister announced that she will visit New Englia in 5617 to express her deep apologies and tighten relations with New Englia ‘’with whom we share a history and who deserve an apology. We need to close this shamefull chapter and seek to move forward, New Englia and Mordusia have much to offer to one another’’. On the question why the Prime-Minister wouldnt go earlier she said that ''we need to take care of business here first, show them we mean business and correct our mistakes. I want to take the time with my team to fix this mess and meet with those affected in our country, thats the least they deserve''.