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Inspectors found foreign workers sleeping in a Burger King basement:

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https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...er-king-basement-alberta-health-services.html


One thing I dislike/d about the TFW program in Canada was the exploitation of the foreign workers it created. That and it was at least not in Alberta used for bringing in skilled workers, but filling opening at fast food establishment

This however was not something I would have expected

The Alberta Health Services order, dated Jan. 10, said the inspection found evidence of “sleeping/living accommodations for foreign workers.”[FONT=&quot]It said allowing sleeping or living accommodations in a restaurant is a health code violation. Food-handling services must be separated from living quarters and other areas that may be “incompatible with the safe and sanitary handling of food.”
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The restaurant had until Wednesday to remove all mattresses and furniture and ensure people were no longer living or sleeping there. It was also ordered to clean up a basement room flooded by a busted pipe, as well as a storage room full of unused equipment
 
Definitely a disturbing story.
Here, there are agricultural workers that arrive in spring - their conditions are not great but better than these folks.
 
There were numerous cases involving foreign nannies/domestic workers. Recently, workers in a temple.

Looks like mistreatment of foreign workers is not uncommon.


'It's slavery in the modern world': Foreign workers say they were hungry, abused at Toronto temple
Hindu Temple calls allegations false, but Toronto lawyer says workers owed 'substantial' settlement
'It's slavery in the modern world': Foreign workers say they were hungry, abused at Toronto temple - Toronto - CBC News



Checking out google, most of the perpetrators are also from other countries (originally).



It's not the first case in Alberta.

Alberta’s workplace laws apply equally to everyone, regardless of someone’s immigration status in Canada; our government takes this matter very seriously and will have more to say pending the results of both investigations.”

That announcement comes after Varinder and Ravinder Sidhu were sentenced last May for unlawful treatment of Filipina workers at their Red Deer motel, a case in which a judge said the staff were treated like “indentured servants.”
Lethbridge Burger King staff abuse allegations being investigated | Calgary Herald


I wonder who owns that Burger King?
 
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Who knew Burger Kings had basements?


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https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...er-king-basement-alberta-health-services.html

One thing I dislike/d about the TFW program in Canada was the exploitation of the foreign workers it created. That and it was at least not in Alberta used for bringing in skilled workers, but filling opening at fast food establishment

This however was not something I would have expected

Damn this **** was happening in Lethbridge...

But yeah the TFW has major issues, my wife got screwed on it for quite some time which I will not go into but these kinds of things are nothing new.

Migrant workers get little protection from workplace abuse - Business - CBC News

Its disgusting that these kinds of things are allowed to happen.
 
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