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Myla Nahe and Fort Macleod

working hours: About a year and a half ago, Nahe started work as a maid at a hotel in Fort Macleod, about 170 kilometres south of Calgary, according to CBC. The contract said she'd be working 40 hours per week, at $12.75 an hour, with a return flight home. The Fort Motel in Fort Macleod, Myla Nahe place of employment for 11 months. But she says she sometimes got just 10 to 15 hours a week. "He only give me like two hours a day sometimes," she said. She says he fired her soon after. She has two daughters, aged 9 and 18, back home who are depending on her income. "I was a bit scared that I can't send money back home during that time." Fired Nahe says about 11 months into the contract she had a falling out with the owner over pay. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.