Pique News | 1 November 2018 The province has introduced a new bill that will give temporary foreign workers in B.C. greater protection against abuses, according to an announcement last week. If passed in the legislature, the B.C. government will create t... read more
My Coast Now | 23 October 2018 The Minister of Labour, Harry Bains has introduced legislation aimed protecting the workers from unscrupulous employers or recruiters. “Some have worked or been housed in unfit, unsafe conditions, others been bullied and i... read more
The Star Vancouver | 23 October 2018 VANCOUVER—B. C. Minister of Labour Harry Bains tabled Tuesday the Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Act in the B.C. legislature, which he says will fulfil the government’s promise to create a registry of employer... read more
Tricity News | 17 October 2018 Legislation is coming this fall that will hold employers who hire temporary foreign workers to a much higher standard than currently exists. Labour Minister Harry Bains confirmed it Monday after a news conference at the legi... read more
The Vancouver Sun | 10 October 2018 The B.C. government is establishing a registry for migrant workers designed to protect them from exploitation by employers and recruiting agents. “Temporary foreign workers are vulnerable to abuse in the workplace, an... read more
CBC News | 2 September 2018 At a time when Canada’s refugee and immigration policy is being hotly debated, the small community of Morden has seen its population nearly double in the last decade. Much of that can be attributed to foreign workers recr... read more
The Calgary Herald | 29 August 2018 The Canadian agriculture industry is calling for changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker program in an effort to solve a labour shortage it says costs farmers $1.5 billion annually in lost sales. The Canadian Federation... read more
CTV Montreal | 3 August 2018 A restaurant owner in Quebec City says he’s had to search as far as Mexico to find workers to address the province’s labour shortage. Quebec’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in 40 years, and with 90,... read more
Northern Policy Institute | 22 July 2018 From 2002 to 2012, the number of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in Canada tripled from 101,078 to 338,221 as businesses increasingly made use of the program – sometimes as a way to access cheaper labour. As a r... read more
By Austin Grabish CBC News| 9 Oct 2017 A Manitoba pork processing plant is suing a Toronto recruiter and former staffer for allegedly misleading foreign workers and persuading them to quit their jobs at the plant to work with companies from which the recr... read more