Now Hiring: No Benefits.

Cabinet is being pressed to amend rules that charge migrant farm workers for Canadian benefits they can never claim. The United Food and Commercial Workers said minimum-wage fruit pickers and other migrants are paying more than $20 million a year in EI premiums though they’re disqualified from benefits: “It is outrageous”.

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