Profiting from the precarious: new report details recruitment abuse of migrant workers
As scandals about abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program break with increasing regularity, the spotlight still overlooks the exploitation that workers face just to get jobs under that program.
A new report from the Metcalf Foundation reveals that migrant workers regularly pay thousands of dollars in recruiting fees — equal to as much as two to three years’ wages in their home currency — to work in minimum wage jobs in Ontario.
To pay the fees, workers must borrow from recruiters and informal money lenders. They sign over the...
