AFL Claims TFW Program Suppresses Canadian Wages

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Alberta Federation of Labour has claimed to have acquired documents to prove that Alberta businesses were allowed by the government to effortlessly under pay temporary foreign workers last year. According to AFL, the businesses are misusing TFW’s as a move to deliberately suppress wages even though the federal government proactively introduced reforms to protect Canadians from wage suppression.

AFL President Gil McGowan stressed that “the government’s prevailing wages rules were broken and twisted,” adding that hundreds and perhaps thousands of businesses are involved in paying temporary foreign workers below the prevailing wage. He explained that “what’s even more shocking is the government actually facilitated this process by approving applications from employers who admitted right up front that they intended to pay their workers less than the prevailing wage. In other words, the government ignored it’s own rules.”

McGowan alleged that the government should in fact be preventing wage suppression, however it is rather facilitating the illegal act. He added that the current economic conditions indicates that wages should in fact be beefed up, calling the TFW Program a train wreck. In addition to that, McGowan elucidated that “it’s clear that this program is not in the interest of working Canadians; and it’s clear people like Jim Prentice, people like Justin Trudeau, and people like Dan Kelly are simply wrong and should be ignored when they say restrictions on the use of TFW should be eased.”

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