A Pemberton organic farm has been fined $387,500 and barred from hiring temporary foreign workers for two years after federal officials found it violated multiple Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFW) rules.
Blue House Organics Inc. was listed as “non-compliant” in a May 29 decision on the federal government’s public registry of employers found in breach of temporary worker rules.
The listing names three violations: the employer could not show the job description it gave on its Labour Market Impact Assessment application was accurate; it broke federal, provincial or territorial laws for hiring and recruiting employees; and the pay, working conditions or job did not match, or exceed, what was listed
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