To give you an order of magnitude, temporary immigrant workers earn minimum wage. Our association conducted a study, and they should be paid between $13 and $17 an hour for the duties they perform. We see that they are totally exploited. Even when it is stated in the contract that they must do a particular type of work, that is virtually not complied with because there is always additional work. Sometimes workers simply play on the live-in caregiver's feeling of belonging to the family in order to ask her to do a little more.
On April 10th, 2008. See this statement in context.