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This shit drives me nuts. The employees shouldn't be compensated at all, they should be deported for working illegally. The shady hotel owners should instead pay that money and more as a fine and if not citizens should also loose their right to stay in Canada. I know the argument that it is unfair to add expulsion as part of the punishment but I simply don't agree.
They did the work. They deserve to be paid.
They did the work knowing they were doing so illegally.
100%. Anything less is criminal. In addition to the payment, the hotels should be fined for violating labor laws. The workers themselves will likely already have strikes against them for residency and immigration purposes plus taxes owed so they will have paid their dues.
I kind of disagree, they should be deported for working illigally sure, but they did the work, They should be paid. the business should also have to pay massive fines too.
Reading the article it seems the hotel intentionally didn't keep records so they could keep these people on staff and take advantage.
They knew they werent legally employed. This is labor arbitrage at its most irritatingly obvious. Regular domestic citizens get fucked.
You reward them by paying them and then they and everyone back home sees its a viable approach to beat the system and they follow suit
How did they get thru customs?? Who will accept liabillity for this and what will be done to mitigate it? Nobody and Nothing is my guess, Canada loves new-Slavery thru Labor Arbitrage. Both hands almost wash the other in sync. One might even go so far as to argue its increasingly based upon it
I agree.
So the fix here is to hit the employers so hard they don't risk hiring illegal again. You're not going to out-scare desperation in people with little to lose. But most business owners won't risk it of there's good fines that are regularly used.
Nah, fuck that. Corporations regularly steal millions of dollars a year in wage theft from regular Canadians. We don't need to be punishing people who did the work from getting paid for the work they already fucking did. The more we normalize people not getting paid fairly regardless of why, we make it less likely for others to get paid properly and less likely for them to go to court over it.
What is the evidence they are actually hapless?
Every time, same story
I think it's worthwhile to read the article. There's mention of LMIAs, immigration consultants, etc.
These are people that were taken advantage of by shady consultants and bad employers. They weren't of proper legal status for a reason.
Then how did they get thru customs?
I think it's worthwhile to catch up to the many years of reporting and documentation on this topic:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-life-in-the-shadows-inside-the-world-of-torontos-undocumented-migrants/
https://amnesty.ca/temporary-foreign-workers-report/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/migrant-workers-rescued-york-toronto-1.6767167
https://ijb.utoronto.ca/news/this-is-the-new-slavery-migrant-farm-workers-underpaid-abused-and-injured/
Can you succinctly respond to soecifically how are these migrants getting thtu customs?
You have to do a little work and read.
Arf arf, sealion.
Ü big silly
I'm sorry, your answer was not in the form of a question. No points.
O Dang
Maybe TikTok might be more of your thing.
Nah
Don't want them to lose their right to live in Canada entirely, just loose it a bit.