Employment Standards Act: Recruitment

Foreign Worker Dept: The investigation was launched because it is against the Employment Standards Act to charge a foreign worker a fee for information about employment or help them find a job in the province. Workers also cannot be forced to pay back any costs associated with recruitment to the company or agency, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "I hope he has substance to it. If he does, we will get to the bottom of it." VANCOUVER - The provincial government is investigating after the B.C. Federation of Labour complained an employment agency has been advertising for Canadian jobs, offering miners in China a chance to work here in exchange for exorbitant recruitment fees. "It is a serious allegation," said Jobs Minister Pat Bell of a news release issued by Jim Sinclair, president of the B.C. Federation of Labour. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.