TRUCKING INDUSTRY * Canada: Eassons Transport´s
* Nova Scotia - Temporary Foreign Worker Program sanctions a trucking company
(Photo: Eassons Transport Ltd.´s trucks fleet)
Berwick,N.S,CAN -CBC News, by Susana Mas, and Paul Palmeter -May 09, 2014: -- The federal government has sanctioned a fourth employer that was using the Temporary Foreign Worker Program pending an investigation into the company's requests for Labour Market Opinions, which are required to prove the need to hire a temporary foreign worker over a Canadian... The owners of Eassons Transport in Berwick, N.S., saw its permits to hire workers through the program suspended on May 1, according to a notice quietly posted on the web site for Employment and Social Development Canada... Employment Minister Jason Kenney said, he intends to give Service Canada further audit powers to ensure employers stick to the rules... While the minister was not available for comment, a spokesperson in the department of Employment and Social Development Canada told CBC News in an email Thursday that "any allegation of abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program will be vigorously investigated" ... Paul Easson doesn't think his company has broken the rules...
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