Sentences with phrase «paid of the foreign workers»

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Among those options was the implementation of a so - called wage floor that would prevent companies from paying foreign workers beneath a set wage level still to be determined.

He pays $ 15,000 per employee to manage the H1 - B visa process for five of his employees who are also foreign workers, and are chronically in danger of not being readmitted to the country when they do things like go back to their home countries to visit family.

The way he sees it, the language of the law allows many foreign and domestic corporations to game the H - 1B system, both robbing Americans of high - paying jobs and exploiting the foreign workers who end up doing them.

Two thirds of Canadians do not agree with the current law where employers are allowed to pay temporary foreign workers less for equivalents skills and duties (66 %), and just more than a quarter agree (28 %).

SAN FRANCISCO — A Northern California company that federal officials say violated salary requirements of the country's foreign - worker visa program will pay a total of $ 173,044 to 12 workers, the U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday.

These firms, putatively in the vanguard of advanced technology and certainly in the vanguard in Capitol Hill lobbying regarding H - 1B, are paying almost all of the foreign workers wages below the median for the given region.

The federal government announced initial changes in April, scrapping an aspect of the program that allowed employers to pay foreign workers as much as 15 per cent less than the average wage for a job.

The senior official said the end result of how the system currently works is that foreign workers are often brought in at less pay to replace American workers, «violating the principle of the program.»

A draft presidential memorandum at the end of the document that could be used to order the review of NAFTA orders the report to pay «extra consideration to the effects such a policy change may have on the middle class, manufacturing and service sector workers, and foreign direct investment into the United States.»

The FWO has found 76 per cent of Caltex stores audited were exploiting workers, including breaching workplace laws and «significantly» under paying award wages to young foreign workers on visas.

11:43 - Brown is attacked on foreign workers - specifically the posted workers initiative, which (through a couple of later court cases) allows foreign to come over while being paid wages of their home country.

He also warned that concerns of workers that their pay was being driven down by foreign labour were real.

However, most in the technical community backed the act because they were convinced that shortages in many fields of science and engineering were real, that foreign workers were paid as well as anyone, and that the economy would suffer unless more foreign professionals were let into the U.S. to work.

Troubling and powerful, the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee is based on the true story of Polish sewer worker Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), who initially helps people he calls «vermin» because they're paying him but grows conflicted about where his sympathies lie.

In the past few years, the leitmotif has grown louder, amplified by concerns about competition from well - educated yet lower - paid foreign workers and the perceived precariousness of U.S. prosperity.

-- Effective immediately, require employers to pay temporary foreign workers at the prevailing wage by removing the existing wage flexibility of 15 %;

Long hours of work for little pay, the inability to take time off of work when personal emergencies arise, fear that speaking out about abuses will lead to deportation — these are the kinds of working conditions faced by many of the 200,000 temporary foreign workers in Ontario.

Our firm is involved in a class action lawsuit against Overseas and Mac's convenience stores on behalf of temporary foreign workers who paid recruitment fees and / or did not receive jobs after signing employment contracts to work for Mac's, or Subway locations in Mac's stores, in Western Canada.

The Government of Canada, under Economic Action Plan 2013, has announced a number of changes in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program as follows: Effective immediately, all employers who hire temporary foreign workers are required to pay them at the prevailinForeign Worker Program as follows: Effective immediately, all employers who hire temporary foreign workers are required to pay them at the prevailinforeign workers are required to pay them at the prevailing wage.

And yet, migrant workers who come to Canada under Canada's temporary foreign worker program, especially low - skilled streams, will tell you again and again that they are paying fees, thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars, for the promise of a low - paid, precarious job in Canada.