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Coquitlam meat business caught in pay-to-work scheme must repay foreign worker, tribunal rules

Despite claiming he was the victim of a “witch hunt,” the proprietor of a wholesale meat business in Coquitlam was found to have violated the Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Act. In May 2023, Shams Halal Meat hired Ehsan Moghaddaszadeh Kermani on a two-year closed work permit. Kermani soon left the job, claiming his pay was lowered and he was expected to “pay back some money” in order to keep working there, according to a previous Employment…
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Tri-Cities Dispatch broke the news in on Friday, February 13, 2026.
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