Foreign Workers

foreign workers: Details of the internal government documents, obtained through an Access to Information request, were shared by the group at a news conference Friday morning in Calgary. Alberta leads way in fast-track requests for temporary foreign workers Temporary foreign worker plans won't help, says Alberta minister Alberta wants more control over Temporary Foreign Worker Program , according to CBC. Many of the foreign workers had jobs as nurse aides, front desk clerks, truck drivers, service station attendants and heavy equipment operators, among others. Documents show the Harper government allowed Alberta companies to pay thousands of foreign workers less than Canadians in 2013, the Alberta Federation of Labour AFL says. Behind closed doors, they knew the rules were being bent and broken, and they knew thousands of temporary foreign workers were being underpaid, said AFL president Gil McGowan. Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, says the federal government allowed Alberta businesses to underpay thousands of temporary foreign workers in 2013. But he would not say how many of those cases happened in the first half of the year, when it was still legal to underpay those workers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.