{"id":99294,"date":"2022-05-16T17:41:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T21:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/quebec-expands-inspections-to-help-protect-tfw-rights"},"modified":"2022-05-18T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:03:24","slug":"quebec-expands-inspections-to-help-protect-tfw-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/quebec-expands-inspections-to-help-protect-tfw-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Qu\u00e9bec \u00e9tend les inspections pour aider \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger les droits des TET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Des inspecteurs charg\u00e9s de veiller \u00e0 la sant\u00e9 et \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires sont d\u00e9ploy\u00e9s dans tout le Qu\u00e9bec en se concentrant sur six secteurs de l&rsquo;\u00e9conomie, d\u00e9clare le ministre provincial de l&rsquo;Immigration, Jean Boulet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00ab Les travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires ne travaillent plus seulement dans le secteur agricole. Avec l&rsquo;assouplissement du Programme des travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires, le gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec se devait d&rsquo;am\u00e9liorer les ressources en mati\u00e8re de sant\u00e9 et de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 mises \u00e0 la disposition des travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires et de leurs employeurs \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 M. Boulet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00ab Le d\u00e9ploiement de cette escouade (d&rsquo;inspecteurs en sant\u00e9 et s\u00e9curit\u00e9) permettra de sensibiliser les milieux de travail aux droits et obligations des travailleurs et de leurs employeurs. \u00bb<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>En savoir plus<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/quebec-arrima-draw-province-invites-30-canada-immigration-candidates\">Tirage d&rsquo;Arrima au Qu\u00e9bec : La province invite 30 candidats \u00e0 l&rsquo;immigration canadienne<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/quebec-immigration-to-soar-over-71000-new-permanent-residents-in-2022\"><span class=\"s3\">L\u2019immigration au Qu\u00e9bec fera un bond de 71 000 nouveaux r\u00e9sidents permanents en 2022<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/quebec-hoping-to-boost-immigration-to-regions-with-new-action-plan\"><span class=\"s3\">Le Qu\u00e9bec esp\u00e8re stimuler l\u2019immigration en r\u00e9gion gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un nouveau plan d\u2019action<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dans le cadre de la derni\u00e8re initiative de la province, sa commission de la sant\u00e9 et de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9, la Commission des Normes, de l&rsquo;\u00c9quit\u00e9, de la Sant\u00e9 et de la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 du Travail (CNESST), va \u00e9galement offrir des services de consultation aux employeurs de travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires pour les aider \u00e0 respecter leurs obligations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><b>Les inspecteurs du travail sont jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent limit\u00e9s au secteur agricole<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">\u00ab Les travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires sont importants pour aider \u00e0 relever les d\u00e9fis pos\u00e9s par les p\u00e9nuries de main-d&rsquo;\u0153uvre et il est donc essentiel de tout mettre en \u0153uvre pour s&rsquo;assurer qu&rsquo;ils sont bien trait\u00e9s \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Mme Boulet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Le Qu\u00e9bec dispose d&rsquo;une escouade d&rsquo;inspecteurs en sant\u00e9 et s\u00e9curit\u00e9 au travail pour les travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires du secteur agricole depuis 2019, soit depuis trois ans, parce qu&rsquo;ils constituaient alors la majeure partie des travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires dans la province.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Visionnez la vid\u00e9o<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RQbBRlEQ22A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">That program, though, was seasonal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Under the expanded version of the program, the new squad of health and safety inspectors, which will be fully operational by next spring, will offer services throughout the year to several additional sectors in addition to agriculture, including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">retail;<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">manufacturing;<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">hospitality;<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">food processing, and;<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">healthcare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">Quebec sees temporary foreign workers being at least a partial fix for its massive labour shortages.<\/p>\n<h3>Squad to Help Make TFWs Aware of Their Rights<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Many of these foreign nationals, though, are largely unaware of their rights and responsibilities under Quebec\u2019s labour laws and the businesses and non-profits that employ them have to be held accountable for providing the right working conditions and for meeting the province\u2019s employment standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The expanded squad of public health and safety inspectors will operate on two fronts. These inspectors will hold free information sessions, including some in Spanish, about health and safety standards in the workplace for temporary foreign workers and their employers in these regions of the province, the:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie;<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Estrie;<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Mauricie and Centre-du-Qu\u00e9bec;<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Laval;<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Laurentides, and;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Lanaudi\u00e8re.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">The inspectors will also offer personalized consulting to employers to help them understand their responsibilities towards temporary foreign workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cTemporary foreign workers are vital to the biofood sector. They contribute to the economic growth of Quebec businesses,\u201d said provincial Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Minister Andr\u00e9 Lamontagne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI invite all of our producers, our processing plants and fishers to use all of the tools made available to them by this squad and add their efforts in workplace safety to those of our government so that our temporary foreign workers can do their jobs with dignity.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Des inspecteurs charg\u00e9s de veiller \u00e0 la sant\u00e9 et \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires sont d\u00e9ploy\u00e9s dans tout le Qu\u00e9bec en se concentrant sur six secteurs de l&rsquo;\u00e9conomie, d\u00e9clare le ministre provincial de l&rsquo;Immigration, Jean Boulet. \u00ab Les travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires ne travaillent plus seulement dans le secteur agricole. 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