Pace of virtual inspections on migrant worker conditions a concern, say critics, with half completed this summer

'This [program] should be a win-win-win situation, and it’s turned out to be a lose-lose-lose situation and it has to be rectified,' says Independent Sen. Ratna Omidvar.

On Oct. 27, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough announced the government had begun consultations to establish minimum requirements for employer-provided accommodations for the Temporary Foreign Worker Program across Canada.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

October 28, 2020

By the end of the summer, the government had only inspected half of employers who hired migrant workers despite launching remote inspections in April and returning to in-person site visits for “egregious” cases in late August, according to documents tabled in the Senate. Between April 24 and Au...

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