N.B. seafood company challenging $1M fine, 10-year ban on temporary worker program
Bolero Shellfish faces Canada's largest fine for violating hiring laws and failing to ensure proper pay and conditions for temporary foreign workers, government said.
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Fish plant seeks judicial review of $1M fine, 10-year ban from foreign worker program
A New Brunswick shellfish processing plant wants the federal court to intervene after it was ordered to pay an historic $1 million fine and banned from using Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program for 10 years over how it treated its foreign workers.

N.B. seafood company challenging $1M fine, 10-year ban on temporary worker program
MONTREAL — A New Brunswick seafood processing company is challenging in Federal Court a $1-million fine and 10-year ban on using the temporary foreign worker program. The federal government penalized Bolero Shellfish Processing Inc.
New Brunswick fish plant fined $1 million challenges penalty in court
A New Brunswick fish plant is seeking a judicial review of its record $1-million fine and 10-year ban from the temporary foreign workers program, alleging federal officials “reversed the onus of proof” and presumed any alleged error the plant made “was intentional and in bad faith.”
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