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Temporary foreign workers losing wages, leaving early due to slow lobster season in N.B.

Summary by Ground News
Lobster processing employees are struggling this year with low catch and a weather-shortened season. The federal temporary foreign worker program gives workers a closed work permit. When they come to Canada they're only allowed to work with the employer who hired them. The majority of New Brunswick's temporary foreign workers work in seafood processing, forestry and construction.

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Temporary foreign workers losing wages, leaving early due to slow lobster season in N.B.

Temporary foreign workers who lost weeks of work during a slow lobster season are speaking out against a Canadian system that bars them from finding other jobs when the employer who hired them has nothing for them to do.

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CBC News broke the news in Canada on Tuesday, August 22, 2023.
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