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CHIMO

(9,223 posts)
Mon May 6, 2013, 08:44 PM May 2013

Temporary foreign workers hired in areas with EI claimants

The minister responsible for the temporary foreign worker program was told last year that employers were hiring temporary foreign workers in the same jobs and same locations as Canadians who were collecting employment insurance, CBC News has learned.

On May 29, 2012, the deputy minister for Human Resources and Skills Development Canada wrote a briefing note to the minister, Diane Finley, which cited four examples in which there was deemed to be a "disconnect" between the temporary foreign worker and employment insurance programs.

One example cited in the briefing note revealed that "in January 2012, Albertan employers received positive confirmation for 1,261 TFW (Temporary Foreign Worker) positions for food counter attendants. At the same time, nearly 350 people made a claim for EI who had cited significant experience in the same occupation and province.“

"Evidence suggests that, in some instances, employers are hiring temporary foreign workers in the same occupation and location as Canadians who are collecting EI ( Employment Insurance ) regular benefits," the note states.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/05/06/temporary-foreign-worker-program.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2013/05/top-kenney-aide-howard-anglin-to-head-up-legal-affairs-at-pmo.html

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Temporary foreign workers hired in areas with EI claimants (Original Post) CHIMO May 2013 OP
TFW program is corporate profit padding MAD Dave May 2013 #1
What you said. nt laundry_queen May 2013 #2

MAD Dave

(204 posts)
1. TFW program is corporate profit padding
Mon May 6, 2013, 11:08 PM
May 2013

The TFW program is set up to provide cheap foreign labour to reduce the short term labour costs of corporations and in the long term cause wage deflation to eliminate the middle class and further reduce labour costs of corporations.

Fuck PM Harper and his band of thieves.

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