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30 يوليو 2025

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By Migrant Rights Network (Canada)

Migrant Workers Expose Government Plan to Allow Employers To Steal Their Pay by up to $15,600/Year

الادعاءات

Migrant organizations unveiled a comprehensive new report involving 514 migrant workers across Canada that reveals federal government proposals to “improve” temporary foreign worker programs will actually worsen conditions for vulnerable workers. The federal proposals come on the anniversary of UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery Professor Tomoya Obokata’s finding that Canada’s temporary migration programs are “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery, as it institutionalizes asymmetries of power that favour employers and prevent workers from exercising their rights” and his call for permanent residency for all migrant workers. The federal government created their reform plan in response to this criticism…

“Instead of fixing the root cause of migrant exploitation by granting permanent resident status, the federal government is putting forward changes that will let employers steal more than $15,000 a year from hundreds of thousands of workers…”said Syed Hussan, Executive Director of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change.

The report released today by the Migrant Rights Network, “Controls Not Protection: New Federal Proposals Set to Worsen Migrant Worker Crisis,” presents the voices of 514 migrant workers – 322 survey respondents and 192 focus group participants with an average of 6.2 years experience in Canadian temporary foreign worker programs. The findings reveal that workers overwhelmingly reject Employment and Social Development Canada’s (ESDC) proposed changes…