Metcalf Foundation: Profiting from the Precarious: How recruitment practices exploit migrant workers
Resource Type: Fair Banking
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
