Exploited: Temporary Foreign Workers In Canada Are Vulnerable
The “closed” work permits that make temporary foreign workers in Quebec and Canada dependent on a single employer leave them highly vulnerable and raise concerns about their precarious circumstances, poor working conditions and labour rights.
That’s the finding of a report by professors Patrice Jalette of Université de Montréal’s School of Industrial Relations and Blandine Emilien of the University of Bristol Business School, both affiliated with the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT).
Their work is detailed in Chronique Internationale de l’IRES, a quarterly labour journal published by France’s Institut de recherches économiques et sociales.
In their report, Jalette and Emilien discuss the tensions and contradictions involved in a society where the homegrown workforce has gradually withdrawn from taking backbreaking jobs, particularly in farming and food processing.
Patrice Jalette
Credit: Amélie Philibert, Université de Montréal
https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2025/03/20/exploited-temporary-foreign-workers-in-canada-are-vulnerable/