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Ottawa to blacklist employers that break provincial labour laws

Ottawa to blacklist employers that break provincial labour laws The Conservative government is beefing up its blacklist of Canadian employers with a plan to include not only businesses found to have broken temporary foreign worker program rules, but also provincial labour laws. The move is the latest in a series of policy changes responding to allegations of abuse related to the foreign worker program. The expanded powers are contained in the Conservative government’s latest omnibus budget bill, which was introduced late last week. The enforcement of labour law is primarily a provincial responsibility and enacting the change will require information-sharing… View Article