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New immigrants get a raw deal at work

| January 20, 2008

Show Notes:

Workplace Rights for Immigrants in BC: The Case of Filipino Workers reveals that recent immigrants frequently work in unsafe conditions with little training or access to information about their rights.

Many of the study’s interviewees had experienced violations of the Employment Standards Act. But none of them made use of a self-help kit, which was their only way of reporting violations to the Ministry of Labour and Citizens’ Services. The kit is available only in English.

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