Fast-food chains and convenience stores are using a loophole in Canada’s temporary foreign worker program to keep labour costs down, says an Alberta labour group.
#WritingFromIsolationWard
Author: NiteMayr
Before:
Kevin was born on the mossy hills of Scotland and lived for a while in West Lothian before the mores of pre-Thatcher and REALLY pre-Oasis Great Britain sent his family across the ocean to North America. They moved here and there and Kevin did the same when he was old enough. Now he lives in London with his family and a Dog.
Kevin Wardrop is an amateur writer, amateur photographer and professional pain in the ass. He has worked in the PC support business for most of his adult life and has been accustomed to simply answering technical questions as a matter of fiat, it was his career choice after all. Now he herds cats and puppies for a living as well as babysitting the web enterprises at the heart of western industry.
Tim Hortons franchisees have been hiring temporary foreign workers since 2005, but Cygal stressed they do so only after exhausting their options locally.
Apr. 9, 2013
10:31 AM
AbuseCapgemini wanted to shift the entire IT department of Ontario Power Generation (nuclear) to India. The OPG union faught them and won. It’s not just the jobs at stake; imagine all our nuclear information sitting on some servers in central Asia. One requires a security clearance to work in OPG’s IT dept and with no security clearances necessary in India. What could go right?
Noah Waile
She died a frail old woman, and celebrating the death of any person is unclassy, but to a large proportion of those who lived in Britain in the 80s, she was so reviled that five year olds knew her name and sung about how much they hated her while skipping.
It’s odd, ATOS had only recently declared her fit to return to the Lords front bench.
