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BC’s farm industry relies on exploiting vulnerable temporary foreign workers, study finds
Nearly 100% of the farmworkers in British Columbia are either immigrants or migrants and most workers are subject to hazardous conditions like unsafe transportation, substandard living conditions, long work hours and dangerous equipment, a new study has found. “Many British
TPP: Chapter By Chapter Analysis
After years of secret negotiations, the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership was finally released last night. Civil society is going through the text with a fine-toothed comb to uncover provisions that threaten the rights, freedoms and the well-being of
Bad deal for Canadian workers, great for foreign corporate giants − labour group slams TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, whose full text was made available to the public yesterday after years of secret negotiations, includes provisions to harmonize Canadian labour laws with those of countries with inferior labour standards, reduce the ability of our government to
Canada will be forced to accept unlimited number of TFWs under TPP
Canada will be forced to grant work permits to an unlimited number of temporary foreign workers who are nationals of the other member countries under the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to the final text of the deal released
TPP opens floodgates to unregulated temporary foreign workers
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could see hundreds of thousands of additional temporary foreign workers (TFWs) entering Canada without any consideration of their impact on the local labour market leading to worsening unemployment among Canadian workers, labour groups warn. The Canadian
Employer found guilty of sexually abusing TFWs not blacklisted by Ottawa
The federal government has failed to blacklist an Ontario business fined $200,000 by the province’s Human Rights Tribunal for subjecting female temporary foreign workers to sex abuse and violence under the threat of deportation and whose owner pleaded guilty for
Canada lost 400,000 manufacturing jobs and Tories pretend there’s no problem
By Nathan Cullen, NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC More than 1.3 million Canadians are out of work today. The government has added more than $150 billion in debt to the national debt. That is more than $4,000 for every
TFW pilots hired at Canadian Forces Base in Ontario, records show
Temporary foreign workers were recruited to work as pilots at the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario, records obtained from Service Canada show. The Canadian Forces Land Advanced Warfare Centre awarded a contract to assist parachute training to Rampart Aviation
Employers facing criminal and labour law charges involving temporary foreign workers not on federal blacklist
Three Alberta businesses whose owners are facing criminal charges for human trafficking and labour law charges in a case involving seven temporary foreign workers have yet to be put on the federal government’s blacklist of employers who have broken the
Fresh calls to scrap temporary foreign worker program after landmark ruling
Rights groups are calling of the scrapping of Harper government’s controversial temporary foreign worker program after the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found Presteve Foods Limited discriminated against two women from Mexico working under the program and awarded the complainants