Former Ontario seasonal farmworker speaks out about exploitation, files class action lawsuit
摘要
日期: 2024年1月2日
地点: 加拿大
企业
Amco - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 1
外劳和移民工人: ( 1 - 牙买加 , 农业和畜牧 , Men , Documented migrants )议题
Occupational Health & Safety , Dismissal , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 疾病 , Wage Theft回应
Response sought: 否
信息来源: News outlet
Canada’s federal government is facing a nearly half-billion dollar class action lawsuit from seasonal agricultural workers who say they were denied benefits and exploited, thanks to what they’re calling racist policies from the 1960s that are still in place today.
One of the plaintiffs…told CTV News in an interview from Jamaica that in his six years labouring as a temporary foreign worker eight months at a time in Leamington, Ontario, he lived with 12 men in one room and didn’t get paid overtime. He says his health was also affected by the pesticides he sprayed…
Palmer was let go with no notice. Because his work permit was tied to his employer, he had to leave the country, and was not eligible to receive any employment insurance, even though premiums had been withheld from all of his pay cheques…
EI payouts are denied for around 50,000 temporary foreign workers who come to Canada every year to work the fields, before heading back to their homes in countries that include islands in the Caribbean, Mexico, India and the Philippines, Century said.
The lawsuit alleges that over the past 15 years, the federal government has taken in some $472 million in EI premiums…