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In Canada Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program was changed. It was getting to the point where entire industries changed overnight out with long-time employees

In Canada Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program was changed. It was getting to the point where entire industries changed overnight out with long-time employees and in with near slave wage "TFWs" (many people just say refer to the people as TFWs). It got so bad it became a huge political hot potato and the law was changed resulting in many TFWs disappearing as fast as they arrived. The law here was similar to the TFW laws in the US and it was abused the same way. The law was meant as a way businesses could get help by hiring cheaper labour if they couldn't find local workers. But of course hiring someone at $5/hour versus $11/hour is strong motivation for a business to cheat. This was every industry too each had its own preferred ethnicity mining (Chinese), fast food (Filipino), IT (India), agriculture (Central American). It's only now changing back to local people born in Canada. I don't have any ill will against the TFW workers it's the businesses who are the ones who ruined the purpose of the TFW law and now have to suffer for it.

Hondor 10y ago
$5/hour sounds like they were violating minimum wage law which is now about $11/hour. Surely that itself is the problem, not whether the workers were foreign or local, or how much above minimum wage they were paid.
- dghughes 10y ago
  No Canadian citizen would ever be paid less than minimum wage it was only the TFW who could be paid that. I'm not sure of the exact wage but I know it was less than the minimum wage which is roughly $11/hour, although each province sets its own rate. There were also problems of TFWs being house in apartments that the business owner owned and took wages for rent. Often having a dozens of people in a small apartment. Other reports of passports being confiscated and return tickets home revoked. It's an embarrassment and thankfully the previous right wing government has been turfed. I think the law now states TFW get the same pay and only to fill labour shortages since the program was meant to fix a labour shortage and nothing to do with wages.

Hondor 10y ago

$5/hour sounds like they were violating minimum wage law which is now about $11/hour. Surely that itself is the problem, not whether the workers were foreign or local, or how much above minimum wage they were paid.

dghughes 10y ago
No Canadian citizen would ever be paid less than minimum wage it was only the TFW who could be paid that. I'm not sure of the exact wage but I know it was less than the minimum wage which is roughly $11/hour, although each province sets its own rate. There were also problems of TFWs being house in apartments that the business owner owned and took wages for rent. Often having a dozens of people in a small apartment. Other reports of passports being confiscated and return tickets home revoked. It's an embarrassment and thankfully the previous right wing government has been turfed. I think the law now states TFW get the same pay and only to fill labour shortages since the program was meant to fix a labour shortage and nothing to do with wages.