Eight temporary foreign workers didn’t quit their jobs when they tried to raise concerns about their working conditions with their employer, the Nova Scotia Labour Board has ruled.
“Adjudicators are going to recognize the power imbalance between employers and employees, and they’re even more cognizant of that imbalance when temporary foreign workers are involved, given that there may be a language barrier, an economic power difference, and the fact that these individuals traveled to our country based on the promise of particular work and pay,” says Megan Thompson, labour and employment lawyer at McInnes Cooper in Halifax.
Ocean Pride Fisheries operates a fish plant in Lower Wedgeport, NS. It employed several temporary foreign workers on a seasonal basis as labourers.
