Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act   is in Bill C-38 for temporary foreign workers? Under this bill, temporary foreign workers can be paid 15% less than other workers for the same work. This is just more of the same Conservative policy to put downward pressure on the incomes of Canadians and Quebeckers. Eugénie Depatie

Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act   in temporary foreign workers who, now for the first time, can be paid 15% less than the average wage. Economist Jim Stanford testified before the finance committee. He said: It is an enormous shortage of jobs, not a lack of workers and not a lack of work ethic, that explains the decline

Citizenship and Immigration   mean employers can now pay migrant workers 15% less than the average Canadian worker. Why is the government failing to protect migrant workers from abuse?

Citizenship and Immigration   workers have the same rights as all Canadians in that respect. She is wrong in characterizing the 15% rule. No employer can pay 15% less unless it is a skilled worker and Canadians are getting paid the same wage. Finally, I find it peculiar that the NDP and the Liberals opposed our

Employment   is obviously helping the unemployed in another country. The Conservatives have changed the rules to make it legal to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15% less than Canadian workers doing the same job. Is that their message to the unemployed, “Work for less or we will bring in someone

Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act   big business pay lower wages. This is not how we built our country and it will not be the way to build the economy of the future. The Conservatives have increased the number of temporary foreign workers by almost 200% while allowing employers to pay them 15% less than a Canadian

Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act   are actually being filled by temporary foreign workers. Now, with a stroke of the pen, the minister has decided those foreign workers can be paid 15% less than their Canadian counterparts, so it will be even easier for an employer to say they cannot find anybody because the employer

Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act   employers to be proactive by making arranged employment offers and using the federal government to help businesses find quality overseas labour, not to cut costs as it appears the government is doing by offering 15% less to workers but to improve the quality of our workforce. If we

Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act   to get into what the Conservatives attempted to do in terms of health care for refugees or the fact that they can bring in foreign workers and pay them 15% less. There are a whole lot of reasons why we have some serious concerns with what has been proposed, but we will support

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, let us be clear. Combat operations in Afghanistan for Canadian soldiers have ended. We do in fact have a very small number as of October 15, less than a half dozen, who are taking part in a long-standing tradition, which is exchanges with countries such as Great

Employment  Mr. Speaker, what is clear is that Canadians cannot trust Conservatives. Companies are planning to hire as many as 2,000 temporary foreign workers to work in B.C. coal mines. Conservatives have encouraged more foreign workers by allowing companies to pay them 15% less than

Human Resources  Mr. Speaker, a new report suggests unscrupulous agencies are charging thousands of dollars to recruit lower wage, temporary foreign workers to work in B.C. coal mines. It is no wonder companies are turning to foreign workers when the Conservatives allow them to pay them 15% less

Jobs and Growth, 2012   that, in Caraquet, some workers are not called back to work in a fish plant. Temporary foreign workers have taken their place because the employer can pay them 15% less and make them work in a different way given the regulations in effect in New Brunswick. There are laws that are not obeyed

Jobs and Growth, 2012  I do not know any more, Mr. Speaker, if it is in the bill, out of the bill, close to the bill. With regard to foreign workers, does he find that foreign workers accepting 15% less in wages compared to other Canadians is discriminatory with this type of formula?

Human Resources committee  . Those who may lose out are probably people who work over 15 days out of 30, but who do not work more than 5 days a week. In such cases, those people may end up with 10% or 15% less pay for a specific general holiday. Once again, we don't have the total number. It should be noted