Sentences with phrase «pay temporary foreign workers»

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

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 %).

Last April, facing a Federal Court lawsuit launched by unions over the HD Mining workers, the federal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing Canadian wage.

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To hire a temporary foreign worker, employers must pay the «prevailing wage» for the position, an amount determined by postings on the Job Bank.

Having promised industry these lower - paid temporary workers, the premier is now trying to claim that the Temporary Foreign Worker program is in fact an immigration program, when she knows full well it isn't.

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.

However, Employment Insurance benefits can not be paid to temporary foreign workers who are no longer here actively seeking a job and who have gone back to their own homes.

Therefore, Employment Insurance benefits can not be paid to people who are not here actively seeking employment, because they are temporary foreign workers and they obviously are not here on a permanent basis.