Employers who are clearly breaking the rules are not granted LMOs.
I don't know about the particular allegations to which you refer. It's possible, or I'll speculate, that you're referring to LMOs that were issued between April 2012 and April 2013, during which time we had instituted on a trial basis the flexibility to allow employers to pay 5% less than the median prevailing wage rate in low-skilled occupations, and 15% less than the median prevailing wage rate in high-skilled sectors, if and only if, Canadians in the same job at the same employer were getting paid at that level. Because the median is higher than the starting wage, this was an effort to stop the aberration of temporary foreign workers getting paid more than Canadians.
It may have been as a result of that, but as you know, we suspended that practice in 2013. Only 5% of employers have actually used that flexibility.