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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Despite paying millions in EI premiums the Harper government refused migrant workers their rightful benefits

Ottawa will pay owed benefits to migrant farm workers

More than 100 migrant farm workers will receive the EI parental benefits that Canada owed them for years after Ottawa agreed not to challenge earlier decisions rendered by an independent tribunal.
 
“That migrant workers see this benefit as important to them is proved by the number of times every year we get calls from their homelands to find out the latest (news),” said Jennifer Pothier, executive director of the Niagara North Community Legal Assistances. “Now we can tell them of the victory.”

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/09/18/ottawa_will_pay_owed_benefits_to_migrant_farm_workers.html


The shame of this egregious abuse of migrant workers rights is paramount to slave trading by the Harper Christian Terrorists.

These people live in fear of government and employer retribution whenever they speak out against the inequalities of their daily lives and the need to survive and support their families.
 

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