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Wudi@feddit.uk to Canada@lemmy.ca · 22 hours ago

Owners ordered to pay $100K in wages say they didn't know foreign workers were employed at their hotel

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Owners ordered to pay $100K in wages say they didn't know foreign workers were employed at their hotel

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Wudi@feddit.uk to Canada@lemmy.ca · 22 hours ago
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    They knew they werent legally employed. This is labor arbitrage at its most irritatingly obvious. Regular domestic citizens get fucked.

    You reward them by paying them and then they and everyone back home sees its a viable approach to beat the system and they follow suit

    How did they get thru customs?? Who will accept liabillity for this and what will be done to mitigate it? Nobody and Nothing is my guess, Canada loves new-Slavery thru Labor Arbitrage. Both hands almost wash the other in sync. One might even go so far as to argue its increasingly based upon it

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      Regular domestic citizens get fucked.

      I agree.

      You reward them by paying them and then they and everyone back home sees its a viable approach to beat the system and they follow suit

      So the fix here is to hit the employers so hard they don’t risk hiring illegal again. You’re not going to out-scare desperation in people with little to lose. But most business owners won’t risk it of there’s good fines that are regularly used.

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          Nah, fuck that. Corporations regularly steal millions of dollars a year in wage theft from regular Canadians. We don’t need to be punishing people who did the work from getting paid for the work they already fucking did. The more we normalize people not getting paid fairly regardless of why, we make it less likely for others to get paid properly and less likely for them to go to court over it.

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            What is the evidence they are actually hapless?

            Every time, same story

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      I think it’s worthwhile to read the article. There’s mention of LMIAs, immigration consultants, etc.

      These are people that were taken advantage of by shady consultants and bad employers. They weren’t of proper legal status for a reason.

      However, Padilla Ruiz’s labour market impact assessment — a document an employer often needs before hiring a foreign worker — listed him as a “housekeeping attendant” at a different Western Star hotel in Esterhazy, Sask.

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        Then how did they get thru customs?

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          I think it’s worthwhile to catch up to the many years of reporting and documentation on this topic:

          https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-life-in-the-shadows-inside-the-world-of-torontos-undocumented-migrants/

          Toronto’s undocumented migrants – most of whom initially entered the country legally – grapple with substandard employment

          https://amnesty.ca/temporary-foreign-workers-report/

          Exploitation, discrimination and abuse are integral features, not bugs, of the Temporary Foreign Worker program

          https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/migrant-workers-rescued-york-toronto-1.6767167

          A single foreign worker blew the lid off a massive international trafficking ring north of Toronto, police say

          https://ijb.utoronto.ca/news/this-is-the-new-slavery-migrant-farm-workers-underpaid-abused-and-injured/

          'This is the new slavery’: Migrant farm workers underpaid, abused and injured

          nearly 80,000 migrants worked in agricultural jobs under Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program

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            Can you succinctly respond to soecifically how are these migrants getting thtu customs?

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              You have to do a little work and read.

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              Maybe TikTok might be more of your thing.

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                Nah

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              Arf arf, sealion.

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                Ü big silly

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                  I’m sorry, your answer was not in the form of a question. No points.

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                    O Dang

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