Compare & Contrast: Use of Cheap Pinoy labour to depress wages, PAP vs Canada

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Canada has recently suspended its Temporary Foreign Workers program due to abuses in the fast food industry. Certain employers like MacDonalds were using this program to bring in cheap Filipino workers to work in their restauarants. These workers were paid minimum wages and as a result it caused local Canadians to lose their jobs. After a few cases were highlighted in the media, the Canadian govt. has now cancelled this program. Compare and contrast this to the PAP who open their legs like a Geylang whore and welcome in cheap labour FTs from the Phillipines and than has the gall to tell Singaporeans that these fuckers will be for the betterment of singapore by creating jobs. This is the kind of traitor shits that 60% assholes have voted in.

Food industry loses access to foreign worker plan

Employment Minister Jason Kenney is suspending the food services sector’s access to the controversial Temporary Foreign Worker Program in the face of widespread criticism. A moratorium is being imposed on any new or pending applications related to the food services sector, he said in a statement from Ottawa. Kenney said the moratorium will remain in place pending a government review of the program. “We have repeatedly warned employers that the Temporary Foreign Worker Program must only be used as a last and limited resort when Canadians are not available,” he said.

The announcement comes on the heels of a report by the C.D. Howe Institute that is harshly critical of the program, saying it has spurred joblessness in western Canada. The C.D. Howe study says making it easier for employers to hire temporary foreign workers has accelerated the rise in jobless rates in Alberta and British Columbia. Fast-food giant McDonald’s already announced it is freezing participation in the program after complaints about the use of temporary foreign workers in three of the chain’s restaurants in Victoria prompted the federal government to launch an investigation.

Earlier Thursday, B.C.’s federal NDP had called for a moratorium. In front of a McDonald’s restaurant on Pandora Avenue, employment critic Jinny Sims along with Greater Victoria MPs Murray Rankin and Randall Garrison urged the government to stop the program and order an independent review. “The bottom line is, there are people living here in Canada who are being laid off or having their hours cut to facilitate the use of foreign workers — this needs to end immediately,” Sims said. “Even McDonald’s has taken action — why hasn’t the government?” Sims said the NDP is hearing from workers at Wendy’s, Tim Hortons, Dairy Queen and in a broad range of industries who claim they are being exploited. The program is abused across the country and only the government is to blame, she said, citing lack of transparency, no clear rules, and no enforcement agency. Annette Beech, president of the Victoria Filipino Canadian Caregivers Association, said employers have told workers in several fast food chains and other industries not to speak out or to the media. Beech said many Filipinos come to Canada under the temporary workers program only to feel like “slave” labour because their stay is tied to their employer. Those workers are now scared about being deported, she said. About 26 employers on Vancouver Island are making use of program, said Garrison, the MP for Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, “so it’s clearly taking away entry-level jobs from people who are permanent residents or Canadian citizens.” Rankin, MP for Victoria, said with a double-digit youth unemployment crisis in Canada going into the peak season for student employment, people in Victoria are telling him they have had enough. Meanwhile, critics have been pushing B.C.’s government to follow Manitoba’s lead and set up a registry of employers that hire temporary foreign workers. Jobs Minister Shirley Bond said her ministry is looking at what other provinces are doing to hold employers accountable. But the government is also awaiting the results of the federal program review. “We do not want to duplicate efforts while changes to the program are still happening,” she said in a statement -

 

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Canada doesn’t need temporary foreign burger flippers


When I was growing up in Truro, N.S., in the 1980s, I was lucky enough to do all kinds of character-building dirty jobs.

I dug clams, raked blueberries, made hay, sawed logs, stacked lumber, carried buckets of hot tar up rickety ladders, stocked shelves, washed dishes and shovelled manure.

I used to look with envy at classmates who managed to get jobs working behind the counter at fast-food restaurants, where the money was better and you’d go home smelling of fries, not manure.

These days, the McDonald’s in my hometown employs two Filipino temporary foreign workers.

In 2011, after a local boy’s dad complained that his son couldn’t get more hours, the owner of the local golden arches told The Truro Daily News that he was forced to bring in workers from the Philippines or he’d have to shut down the restaurant at night.

I say go ahead and shut it down, or raise wages, a time-tested way of convincing people to work longer hours.

Nova Scotia has an unemployment rate of 9.3 per cent. Truro doesn’t need temporary foreign workers. But it has them. They’re in Tim Hortons and McDonald’s all across Canada.

The temporary foreign worker program, which was founded in 1973, does a lot of good things. It helps farmers bring in workers to do seasonal jobs that Canadians won’t do, provides home-care workers and helps employers bring in specialized skilled workers.

But it is increasingly being used to open the door to burger flippers. In 2005, the government issued permits for 4,360 temporary foreign workers in Food and Services. By 2012, the number hit 26,215.

Employers like temporary foreign workers, who tend to be more reliable than Canadians, and the Tories listen to employers. So they have massively expanded the program, repeatedly tinkering to make it easier for employers to get permits.

In 2008, Joyce Reynolds, of the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, told a Commons committee that her members were grateful to the government for making it easier to bring in temporary foreign workers, but called for more changes.

“Our members are frustrated by their inability to access the temporary foreign worker program due to artificially high wage rate demands,” she said.

You don’t have to know very much about economics to understand that when you increase the supply of something, the price for that thing goes down. When you increase the supply of dishwashers, waiters and counter helpers, you depress wages.

By opening the door to foreign workers, the government has been making market conditions tougher for the working poor who mop floors, flip burgers and pour coffee on the night shift.

Unions griped, and the NDP asked questions in the House, but nobody paid too much attention until this month, when CBC uncovered a number of apparent abuses.

Three Victoria McDonald’s (employing 26 temporary foreign workers) were turning away Canadian job applicants. Veteran waitresses in Weyburn, Sask., were replaced by foreign workers.

The stories seem to have struck a nerve with the public, because the government and the restaurants companies started moving and talking very quickly.


Employment Minister Jason Kenney announced an urgent investigation, then McDonald’s Canada announced a voluntary freeze on hires. Then Tim Hortons took over two franchises where temporary workers complained that their boss had been cheating them. Then Kenney announced a moratorium on temporary foreign worker permits for fast-food restaurants.

Kenney, who has been running this program since 2008, was suddenly, furiously and effectively communicating disappointment at its abuses, and threatening to penalize employers.

This was impressive in a way, but Kenney, who is smarter than the average bear, had to know all along that his policies were making life tougher for the dishwashers of the world.

If his understanding of supply and demand was inadequate, on Thursday the C.D. Howe Institute released a report that found that federal officials have never properly analyzed the labour market for workers with little education — the ones most affected by competition from temporary foreign workers in restaurants.

A pilot project in Alberta and British Columbia allowed Simon Fraser University economist Dominique Gross to analyze the impact on low-education workers — what scientists call a “natural experiment.” Gross discovered that — as the laws of supply and demand predict — the expansion of the program increased the unemployment rate among low-skilled workers.

Without properly measuring job vacancies, the government has been opening the door to foreign fast-food workers, interfering with the invisible hand of the market in a way that has made life tougher for the seniors who pad their CPP by serving coffee in drive-throughs.

Until the government can draw up a very short list of boom towns where restaurants would shut without foreign workers, the government should get out of the way and let the market do its work.

 

[frenchbriefs]

Here we let companies do what they want.spineless gutless PAP prostitutes.

 

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Compare and contrast the canadian minister's words with that of a PAP traitor minister. I have highlighted the salient points.

Statement from Minister of Employment and Social Development Jason Kenney

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Our Government will not tolerate any abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Any employer found to have broken the rules will face serious consequences. Our message to employers is clear and unequivocal — Canadians must always be first in line for available jobs.

On April 3, 2014 I became aware of very serious allegations that a McDonalds franchise owner in Victoria, British Columbia broke the rules of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. I immediately ordered my officials to begin an urgent investigation to determine the facts.

Within 24 hours of becoming aware of these allegations, inspectors from my department did an on-site inspection at the location in Victoria and I suspended all Labour Market Opinions and work permits in process for this franchise pending the outcome of the investigation. The Labour Market Opinions and work permits were suspended as I have reasonable grounds to believe that this employer provided Employment and Social Development Canada with false, misleading or inaccurate information.

If the investigation determines that this franchise owner broke the rules of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, I will permanently revoke their existing Labour Market Opinions and prevent them from hiring temporary foreign workers.

 

[The_Hypocrite]

I wish the kangaroo gahman has the balls to get rid of the 457visa and working holiday visa. Its creating the same employment problems singkieland is facing.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Many countries look to US for business ideas which in fact backfired from education system to IT and technologies. This globalization program only benefits US companies in other countries.

US big companies like McDonald expanded to other countries and want cheap labors to compete with the locals. They are to blame for today low wages and immigrations problems in many countries.

Next time any US President, now Obama, come to Singapore hope someone throw a shoe at them and tell him to go home.

Keep looking at US for ideas and innovation, maybe have to think many times in today's context?

Compare and contrast the canadian minister's words with that of a PAP traitor minister. I have highlighted the salient points.

Statement from Minister of Employment and Social Development Jason Kenney

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Our Government will not tolerate any abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Any employer found to have broken the rules will face serious consequences. Our message to employers is clear and unequivocal — Canadians must always be first in line for available jobs.

On April 3, 2014 I became aware of very serious allegations that a McDonalds franchise owner in Victoria, British Columbia broke the rules of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. I immediately ordered my officials to begin an urgent investigation to determine the facts.

Within 24 hours of becoming aware of these allegations, inspectors from my department did an on-site inspection at the location in Victoria and I suspended all Labour Market Opinions and work permits in process for this franchise pending the outcome of the investigation. The Labour Market Opinions and work permits were suspended as I have reasonable grounds to believe that this employer provided Employment and Social Development Canada with false, misleading or inaccurate information.

If the investigation determines that this franchise owner broke the rules of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, I will permanently revoke their existing Labour Market Opinions and prevent them from hiring temporary foreign workers.