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Wudi@feddit.uk to Canada@lemmy.ca · 22 days 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 days ago
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      I kind of disagree, they should be deported for working illigally sure, but they did the work, They should be paid. the business should also have to pay massive fines too.

      Reading the article it seems the hotel intentionally didn’t keep records so they could keep these people on staff and take advantage.

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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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          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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                  Arf arf, sealion.

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                    Ü big silly

                • Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca
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                  Maybe TikTok might be more of your thing.

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                    Nah

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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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      They did the work. They deserve to be paid.

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        100%. Anything less is criminal. In addition to the payment, the hotels should be fined for violating labor laws. The workers themselves will likely already have strikes against them for residency and immigration purposes plus taxes owed so they will have paid their dues.

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        Don’t want them to lose their right to live in Canada entirely, just loose it a bit.

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