April 30th<\/p>\n
… did we ever tell the story of one foreign worker we treated? She worked as a domestic, brought in through the very program now making the news.<\/p>\n
She was employed as a domestic, until she became pregnant, and started throwing up a lot. Her employer did 2 things. First, they paid her below minimum wage, something they could not do with a Canadian citizen. Secondly, they fired her when her vomiting revealed she was pregnant.<\/p>\n
She tried to get another job. Same problems. Unemployed, she lost her health insurance.<\/p>\n
She had no money to pay for her rent, food, or the healthcare she would now have to pay for her pregnancy and delivery care.<\/p>\n
She is now in debt, with child.<\/p>\n
The foreign worker program is rubbish. It has no teeth to protect workers, or Canadians. It abuses them, and it was set up to be abused.<\/p>\n
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