Foreign Drivers * Canada - Trucking firm complains others hiring away its
Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada -Saskatchewan News Network, by Murray Lyons -December 13, 2007: -- The owner of a Saskatoon area trucking company says it's too easy for other trucking companies to hire away his new immigrant drivers... Jim Clunie of Kelsey Trail Trucking Ltd. in Dundurn, a company specializing in flat deck loads across Canada, says a group of Filipino long-haul truck drivers who arrived at his firm just this spring and summer recently gave notice... Clunie says his understanding is that most of those Filipino workers who handed in their notice in the past month are being hired by Siemens Transportation Group Inc., the parent company of Kindersley Transport and its flat bed sister company, Edge Transportation... Clunie says he's upset enough to investigate if there are legal options to recoup what he says are $13,500 in costs incurred by Kelsey Trail in recruiting each Filipino driver, including air fares, settlement costs and training expenses...
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