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Unpaid Wages: Safe Drinking Water

Video Swf Dept: The B.C. Employment Standards Branch has ordered Surrey-based Khaira Enterprises to pay the roughly 30 workers more than $225,000 in unpaid wages, according to CBC. In July, the workers came forward alleging they weren't provided with safe drinking water, adequate food or bathroom facilities while they were clearing brush and tree planting at a job site near Golden, B.C. They also claimed they were subject to racist comments and even death threats from their supervisors and download Flash Player to view this content. var flashvars= state:"embed", RSI: " -production", clipId:1765091715, image:"http://www. .ca/bc/img/thumbnails/bc-110124-workers-embed 306.jpg" ; var params= allowFullScreen:"true",allowScriptAccess:"always",menu:"true",salign:"tl",scale:"noscale", bgcolor:"#000000" ; var attributes= id:"tpSwf", name:"tpSwf" ; swfobject.embedSWF "/video/swf/UberPlayer.swf", "tpSwf", "306", "224", "9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes ; Immigrant tree planters who were forced to toil for long hours without adequate food or shelter will be paid for their back-breaking work. The workers, most of them landed immigrants from Burundi and the Republic of Congo, were sent to remote camps around B.C. and endured what were described as "slave like" conditions, before an investigation began in 2010. As reported in the news.
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