Canada is to publish its online guide to temporary foreign workers\u2019 rights in five additional languages in the wake of Ontario and Quebec\u2019s efforts to ramp up inspections of working conditions.<\/p>\n
On its website, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has already published that guide, \u2018Temporary Foreign Workers: Your Rights Are Protected\u2019, in English, French and Spanish.<\/p>\n
It outlines the rights of foreign nationals living and working in Canada in terms of healthcare services, workplace injuries, workplace health and safety, working conditions and housing rights and where to get help.<\/p>\n
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Families Reunited In Record Numbers Under Canada\u2019s Parents And Grandparents Program<\/a> But now, Ottawa is working on releasing that guide in several other languages.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are currently completing Tagalog, Korean, Thai, Hindi and Chinese (simplified) languages and will make them available in the coming weeks,\u201d notes the ESDC on its website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Temporary foreign workers who are asked to do dangerous work or face unsafe working conditions \u2013 or who have been injured because of their work – are encouraged to contact provincial or territorial workplace health and safety offices at:<\/p>\n In Canada, governments are increasingly taking steps to ensure temporary foreign workers are treated right and not abused at work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier this year, the francophone central Canadian province of Quebec began to deploy inspectors to ensure the health and safety of temporary foreign workers throughout Quebec as a program previously limited to agricultural workers expanded to include six sectors of the economy.<\/p>\n \u201cTemporary foreign workers no longer work only in agriculture,\u201d said then-Quebec Immigration Minister Jean Boulet in May. \u201cWith the relaxation of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program<\/a>, the government of Quebec needed to improve the health and safety resources available to temporary foreign workers and their employers.<\/p>\n \u201cDeploying this squad (of health and safety inspectors) will raise awareness in workplaces about the rights and obligations of workers and their employers.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch Video<\/b><\/p>\n
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Quebec Expanded Inspections Of Workplaces Of TFWs Earlier This Year<\/h3>\n
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