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Julian Hill backs home affairs minister prioritising overseas skilled applicants, as advocates warn of damage of ‘limbo’ status for refugees

LÉVIS, Que. — Quebec's labour minister says an investigation is underway into allegations that a private seniors residence in Lévis, Que.

Quebec Immigration and Labour Minister Jean Boulet has sent workplace health and safety investigators to look into allegations that operators of Villa mon domaine harassed and underpaid six temporary migrant workers from Africa over many months.

LÉVIS, Que. - Quebec's labour minister says an investigation is underway into allegations that a private seniors residence in Lévis, Que., paid temporary workers from Africa just $70 a week to work as orderlies over several months while promising work permits.

LÉVIS, Que. — Quebec's labour minister says an investigation is underway into allegations that a private seniors residence in Lévis, Que.

Farm workers in Australia are exposed to widespread wage theft and exploitation, a survey shows. News by James Hall Premium Content Subscriber only A Taiwanese foreign worker says she was exposed to such horrific rates of underpayment on an Australian farm she was forced to eat from public rubbish bins just to survive. Kate Hsu said she was paid just $4 an hour picking oranges on a South Australian farm as the disturbing rates of wage theft and exploitation ...

Advocates have decried how difficult it can be for temporary foreign workers to get vaccines, despite cramped living spaces and workplaces that make it hard to prevent transmission of the virus.

Advocates have decried how difficult it can be for temporary foreign workers to get vaccines, despite cramped living spaces and workplaces that make it hard to prevent transmission of the virus. 

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 10:20 am on April 20, 2021 | 4 comments As we know, the hospitality and horticultural industries are currently lobbying the government hard to allow easier access to migrant workers. We are told that these industries are experiencing chronic labour shortages and that without access to migrant workers, restaurants and cafes will be forced to close and farms will lose valuable crops. One interesting aspect of these claims is that the simplest soluti...

Quebec urged to list burnout as an occupational disease in update to workplace safety laws Labour groups and medical specialists want burnout categorized as an "occupational disease," meaning it would be considered the same way lung cancer is for construction workers exposed to asbestos. Social Sharing