CFIB: people with “a little bit of colour” may not be temporary foreign workers

Published April 28, 2014

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has an urgent message about diversity and the workplace: If you see someone working in a fast food restaurant who has an “accent or a little bit of colour,” don’t — repeat don’t — jump to the conclusion that they’re a temporary foreign worker. They could, in fact, be a Canadian […]

Leave scrubbing hotel toilets to TFWs: CFIB

Published April 25, 2014

Forget McDonald’s temporary foreign worker troubles and the leaked audio of its CEO talking about how his company is facing heat over the use of “disenfranchised” TFWs. The president of the lobby group representing small business has his own super-sized problem after his appearance on national television Thursday. Appearing on CTV’s Power Play, Dan Kelly, head of the Canadian Federation for Independent […]

Harper government “accelerated” unemployment by expanding TFW Program: study

Published April 24, 2014

The federal government’s decision to make it easier for companies to bring in temporary foreign workers “accelerated the rise in unemployment in Alberta and British Columbia,” says a new report that blows major holes in Conservative talking points. The study by the conservative-leaning C.D. Howe Institute concludes that changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in the past decade […]

Business group doubles down on temporary foreign workers

Published April 18, 2014

This week really wasn’t the best time to be defending Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Not long after CBC blew the whistle on a McDonald’s franchisee in Victoria bringing in temporary foreign workers (TFW) from the Philippines even though locals wanted the shifts, Canadians learned Thursday of serious allegations about the treatment of TFWs at a McDonald’s in […]

One in four new jobs went to temporary foreign workers

Published April 16, 2014

Well, it looks like Kijiji isn’t the only problem with the Conservatives’ job numbers. It turns out that a good chunk of new jobs in Canada — one in four, to be exact — were filled by temporary foreign workers, while unemployed Canadians couldn’t find work. The recent report from Parliamentary Budget Office spells it […]

Jason Kenney needs your help to solve a problem he created

Published April 8, 2014

Employment Minister Jason Kenney is busy these days, acting completely shocked that McDonald’s and other companies may be filling McJobs with temporary foreign workers instead of locals. He’s even asking the public, via Twitter, for help in finding wayward employers so he can crack down on abuse: Employers who lie on LMO applications for the […]

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