AUCKLAND (NZ Punjabi News Service): Even as First Union is seeking to stop granting visa to foreign labourers, the construction industry here wants entry of foreign workers to complete the infrastructure projects. The union has said that to facilitate Kiwis rendered unemployed due to COVID - 19 get jobs, the government should suspend the scheme of granting work to workers as New Zealanders will need those jobs having been left jobless due to COVID – 19. However, the construction industry wants government to allow the foreign construction labourers so as to complete the infrastructure projects as they are unable to find the Kiwis who can do the jobs. As many as eight applications from labour-hire firms to import offshore workers have landed with First Union in the past two months. "It would be totally appropriate for the Ministry to actually suspend this scheme while we're figuring out exactly what the impact is on New Zealanders and New Zealand jobs," said First Union spokesperson Anita Rosentreter. "Roles that you might call unskilled, certainly roles that New Zealanders could do," Rosentreter says. The new Immigration Minister, Kris Faafoi, however, says that construction industry should work to find labour initially here. It is learnt Immigration has approved the visa of a skilled worker and their partner for the City Rail Link project. The visa granted is part of application by 54 persons including 30 workers and 24 of their family members who have been granted border exemption. They are yet to get work visa. The City Rail Link officials have said that no Kiwi was available for the job. According to project officials, they need 60 more foreign workers for this project. The project officials are even considering setting up own quarantine hotel along with WaterCare, Fletcher Construction and the New Zealand Transport Agency due to paucity of space in government managed isolation centres for overseas arrivals. "There are other big projects that need people just like we do, so we are looking at taking something back to Government in the next few weeks as a proposal," said Sean Sweeney, CEO of project.