A winery in B.C.’s Okanagan has truly been fully prohibited from using short-term worldwide staff and fined $118,000, in line with the federal authorities.
According to a notification on the government’s website, Toor Vineyards didn’t supply a authorities assessor with the papers they requested for and didn’t “put in enough effort” to make sure the workplace was devoid of bodily, sex-related, emotional or financial misuse.
The discover likewise states the pay or functioning issues didn’t match what was supplied on a piece deal or a piece was not the like what was equipped.
The data of those offenses have truly not been revealed.
Employers positioned to be non-compliant with pointers beneath the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) can acquire a monetary fantastic, a restriction on using short-term staff, or, as in relation to this B.C. winery, each.
According to the federal authorities web website, a long-term restriction is supplied only for probably the most main offenses beneath the TFWP.
While Toor Vineyards doesn’t present as much as exist, the deal with supplied for Toor Vineyards matches the deal with for Oliver, B.C.’s Desert Hills Estate Winery.
According to the federal authorities’s itemizing of firms which have truly been positioned non-compliant with the TFWP, Desert Hills Estate Winery was fined $16,000 in 2023. That itemizing recommends the penalty has truly not but been paid, sinceJan 6, 2025.
CBC News has truly spoken to the winery for comment but has truly not obtained an motion.
Navid Bayat, personnel authorized consultant on the Migrant Workers Centre, said a penalty of this amount is “significant” together with that he needs it sends out a message to varied different firms regarding the remedy of short-term worldwide staff.
“This is quite a rare situation that they get a ban,” he said.
“To me, it reads that they are coming out hard on a likely pattern of systemic violations of the temporary foreign worker program and of the rights of migrant workers who have come here under the pretence of being promised a job in Canada.”
Randhir (Randy) Toor was proprietor and head of state, on the very least without delay, but an Instagram message datedDec 22, 2023, said Toor has truly relinquished the winery. In 2022, Toor begged responsible to 7 issues of recommendation or effort to recommendation misstatement beneath the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
Out of 957 offenses supplied on the federal authorities web website on condition that 2016, only one numerous different agency has truly been fully prohibited from the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
