The federal government fined the owner of a Canadian framework CTC -at Storage in Toronto more than $ 100,000 to violate the rules of the temporary foreign workers program.

Izil Natarajan, the owner of the store concession in the suburb of Itopikok, is still being investigated by the regional authorities for exploiting foreign workers.

Canada’s employment and social development, the ministry that oversees the TFW program, has not provided specific details about the violations of Mr. Natarajan. But it found violations under two categories: that the conditions of wage or work did not coincide with what was included in the employment offer, and workers were appointed to various roles from what was appointed to do.

A year ago, The Globe and Mail stated that at least 13 employees in the store, all foreign workers, either resigned or shot by Mr. Nataragua after they claimed that their wages had been arbitrary and that they were asked to take jobs that were not appointed for them. At that time, ESDC officials were already investigating Mr. Natarajan.

The Federal Resolution was issued against Mr. Natarajan in July and made the audience on the ESDC website for employers who are not compatible with the rules of the TFW program. As of Sunday, the page shows that Mr. Natarajan has not yet paid a $ 111,000 penalty kick against him, and therefore he is not qualified for the TFW program.

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The store owner was also under investigation by the Ministry of Labor in Ontario during the past year. In an email to the world, a ministry spokesman confirmed that the investigation is continuing, and that no decision has been taken.

Mr. Natarajan did not answer questions from the world about the fine of ESDC. Last year, his lawyer, Arthur Tarasuk, told Globe that Mr. Natarajan denied the allegations against the workers against him, and aim to refute them.

TFW is a major stream of migration in Canada and is used primarily by agricultural employers and retail for vacancies that cannot be domesticated locally. The government determines whether employers are eligible by assessing applications for evaluating the impact of the labor market (LMIA), as employers explain the reason for the need for employment from abroad to fill the position.

The program has been distinguished on the charge of exploiting the employer, and is partly linked to the design of the “closed work permit”, which links the participant’s ability to work in Canada with one employer. Critics say this design increases the worker’s dependence on the employer because they are unable to easily change jobs in exploitation.

Conservative leader Pierre Polilifer recently criticized the TFW program recently, calling on the federal government to completely close it and end the issuance of new work permits. Mr. Poilievre linked the program to the rise in home unemployment and suppression of wages.

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After the epidemic erupted, Ottawa expanded greatly to reach the program, which led to the increase in the number of LMIA approvals between 2022 and 2024. Since then, the eligibility standards have been in line with the goal of the policy of reducing the total number of temporary population in the country.

Federal government data show that gehethazhil Inc. The registered trade name of the Canadian framework of Mr. Natarajan, was approved to employ 34 workers through the TFW program between 2022 and 2024.

One of the former employees of Mr. Natarajan claimed that his wages had been reduced from $ 20 per hour to 16.55 dollars after Mr. Natarajan reduced it, and changed his role from the supervisor to a store on the shelf.

Under the rules of the TFW program, employers who want to change job duties and/or pay to the employee must be completed New LMIA and obtain a new work permit issued. Mr. Billan said that he did not get a new work permit, but he continued to work in a different role according to the same statement.

According to the documents obtained by Globe last month, six foreign workers who were previously worked by Mr. Natarajan received open work permits from Ottawa, part of the open work program for vulnerable workers, designed to help foreign workers who had exploited.

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One of the Canadian tire workers who received the open work permit in his request to the government said that Mr. Natarajan was “known” with their verbally threatened employees, and that he repeatedly warned the workers that their hours and pushed would be reduced if they did not comply with his instructions. The worker does not name the worker because it is concerned about the repercussions of the current employer.

Separately, the recruiter, Mr. Natarajan, was recruited to employ temporary foreign workers, Alison Jones Consulting Services, by the Ministry of Labor in Ontario in June on charges of imposing fees on foreign work illegally on job positions.

Mr. Billan paid Alison Jones more than $ 10,000 to obtain Canadian tire job in 2023. Last year, an investigation was revealed in the world how dozens of Canadian tire privileges were using the recruiter for employees with their stores with temporary foreign workers.

Alison Jones, the owner of the employment company, said she intends to appeal the ministry’s decision.

Canadian tires did not respond to a query about whether Mr. Natarajan is still the owner of the concession at the Etobicoke Store. In response to Globe investigations in Mr. Natarajan and Mrs. Jones last year, Canadian Tyre changed an internal policy of employment, with the exception of concession owners from the use of recruits and immigration consultants who receive fees to foreign workers.