Chinese miners wanted to pay for Canadian jobs

 Chinese miners wanted to pay for Canadian jobs

Workers brokers may be charging Chinese miners up to $16,000 for the opportunity to work in Canadian mines as momentary foreign workers.

The National frequented prominent recruitment agency in Beijing carrying hidden cameras. Hunters posing as  miners learned that workers with minimal mining encounter are being offered positions in Canadian gold, copper and potash mines.

Interviewers said that, once working in Canada, miners would be paid no less than $10 per hour. Permanent workers in Canada's underground and surface miners are paid on average $25 to $30 per hour.

Hunters also learned that workers are wanted to pay a deposit of several thousand dollars to secure a spot in a Canadian mine. The firm said that the remainder of the $16,000 fee is taken straight forwardly from the miner's paycheque until paid in full.

The interviewers claim that the deduction occurs with the idea of the recruiter, although the organization provided no evident that it was acing on behalf of a specific organization or company.

In Canada, it is illegal for interviewers to charge recruitment fees to momentary foreign employees.

The Human Resources and expertise Development Canada explained that "an recruiter who has requested the services of a employer is required to cover all recruitment costs related to the hiring of the momentary foreign employee."

Recruitment firms a long-time issue:

Unscrupulous recruitment firms have long been one of the most serious issues surrounding the mush-criticized foreign employes program, says MP Olivia Chow.

In 2009, as part of a standing organization on citizenship and immigration, Chow co-authored reports that made recommendations as to how Ottawa could better secure a swelling momentary workforce.

These are presently over 300,000 momentary foreign employees in the country, a number that has almost tripled since 2002, according to Citizenship and Immigration Canada.Other, more inclusive CIC figures, look  that the number of momentary foreign employees in Canada grew from 186,753 in 2001 to 446,847 in 2011.

The province of Manitoba, which employes 1.6 per cent of the momentary foreign employees in the country, has enacted comprehensive legislation to try to secure its momentary labour force, including fines for inadequate pay and poor working conditions.