{"id":548,"date":"2013-03-22T02:34:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T02:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refugeeresearch.net\/ms\/km\/?p=548"},"modified":"2013-03-22T02:41:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T02:41:29","slug":"548","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refugeeresearch.net\/ms\/km\/2013\/03\/22\/548\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Action at Ministry of Labour: Make \u2018em pay to work!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Join us at MoL on March 22nd\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WZjsVK9_p5U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Join us as we charge Ontario Ministry of Labour employees fees to go to work. Strange? Not at all. Migrant workers have to pay thousands of dollars to work in Ontario, and its legal. If recruiters can make a quick buck off migrant workers, we can make a quick buck off the people who allow it. All you need is suit and a tie. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Show up bright and early on March 22nd, around 7:30 or so in the morning.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please fill out this form so we can send you all the details (its the shortest job application you\u2019ll ever do): <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/FeesfromMoL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/FeesfromMoL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still unsure? Don\u2019t worry. Recruiters aren\u2019t licensed in Ontario, so anyone can do it! What\u2019s even better is that recruiters can\u2019t be held liable for what happens at work. So if these Ministry of Labour employees boss turns on them, its no skin off your back.<\/p>\n<p>By our guessestimation (its pretty hard to get the facts) at least half off Ontario\u2019s 120,000 migrant workers are paying between $3,000 and $10,000 to unscrupulous recruiters*. That\u2019s could be as high as 1.2 billion dollars a year. Imagine how much more money could be made by the rich if we started charging the non-migrant workers too. Its an untapped opportunity and we need to take matters in to our own hands.<\/p>\n<p>With few real ways to get into Canada permanently, migrants are forced to pay recruiters to come to Canada on a temporary basis. To do so, entire families get into debt. Here. they pay in to E.I., and CPP, but face insurmountable barriers . Health and safety protections are non-existent. Documents are seized and bosses are often abusive. All of this is allowed by provincial and federal laws. We won\u2019t be treating the Ministry of Labour employees that badly.<\/p>\n<p>** This is the first of many actions, if you can\u2019t make it to this one, please sign up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2FvFCG1&amp;h=bAQFXUmCF&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/vFCG1<\/a> to hear about future ones**<\/p>\n<p>March 22nd is the three-year anniversary of the passing of the Employment Protections for Foreign National Act (Live-In Caregivers &amp; Others) aka EPFNA. EPFNA banned recruiters fees and seizure of documents from live-in caregivers but left out seasonal agricultural workers, and those in the temporary foreign worker low skilled program. Not only that, EPFNA has not been fully implemented to adequately support live-in caregivers and requires key amendments to ensure that it actually works.<\/p>\n<p>* Two-thirds of caregivers in a survey by Caregivers Action Centre who arrived after EPFNA was enforced paid fees, averaging $3275. Filipino workers that MWAC organizations come in to contact with report paying a base fees of $5,000 while Thai workers report paying a base fees of $10,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.migrantworkersalliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">www.migrantworkersalliance.org<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MigrantWorkersAlliance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.facebook.com\/MigrantWorkersAlliance<\/a> | coordinator@migrantworkersalliance.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us as we charge Ontario Ministry of Labour employees fees to go to work. Strange? Not at all. 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