Canada Mulls Name-and-Shame Policy to Curb Foreign Worker Abuse
- The government sees the measure as improving labor compliance
- As foreign labor program expanded rapidly, abuses also grew
Farm workers harvesting daffodils. Canada’s temporary foreign worker program was originally designed to help agricultural operations, but now it’s being used to fill lower-wage jobs across a number of sectors. Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault has promised changes to the temporary foreign worker program.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is mulling a change to help crack down on abuses of temporary foreign workers — publicly naming individual business managers or owners who violate Canada’s labor rules.
The measure would be part of a broader set of reforms to clean up the country’s migrant labor system, according to people familiar with the matter, speaking on condition they not be identified.