Federal Government: Employment and Social Development Department

Employment and Social Development Department: Earlier this week, the government announced it was investigating whether the 65 workers at Imperial Oils TSX:IMO Kearl project had been replaced with workers from Croatia at half the pay, according to 660 News. However, Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan said not all have received offers and Alta. The federal government says dozens of workers laid off in Albertas oilpatch have jobs again, but a labour group says thats not the case and it points to a broken temporary foreign worker system. An official with the Employment and Social Development Department said Friday all of the laid-off workers have received job offers on other projects in the area. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.