Metcalf Foundation: Profiting from the Precarious: How recruitment practices exploit migrant workers

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There are over 338,000 migrant workers in Canada. This number has more than doubled since 2006. As Canada increasingly relies on a work force of transnational migrant workers with temporary status, an industry of third-party for-profit recruiters has emerged to match workers with jobs in Canada.

This report exposes how temporary foreign workers are paying thousands of dollars in recruiting fees — equal to as much as two to three years’ wages in their home currency — to work in minimum wage jobs in Ontario.

Posted April 9, 2014

Source: Metcalf Foundation

 

 

Metcalf Foundation: Profiting from the Precarious: How recruitment practices exploit migrant workers

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