Employers Fined Record $1.54M in 2022 for Breaching Migrant Labour Rules

Mexican and Guatemalan workers pick strawberries at a farm in Pont Rouge Que., on Aug. 24, 2021. The Canadian Press/Jacques Boissinot

Federal inspectors last year fined employers a record $1.54 million for violating migrant labour regulations, according to the Department of Employment.

“Last fiscal year, over 2,100 inspections were completed,” the department said in a Sept. 27 statement, which was first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter.