A winery in B.C.’s Okanagan has truly been fully prohibited from using short-term worldwide workers and fined $118,000, based on 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 provided.
The data of those offenses have truly not been revealed.
Employers positioned to be non-compliant with pointers underneath the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) can receive a monetary high-quality, a restriction on using short-term workers, or, as relating to this B.C. winery, each.
According to the federal authorities web web site, a long-term restriction is supplied only for essentially the most main offenses underneath the TFWP.
While Toor Vineyards doesn’t present as much as exist, the handle supplied for Toor Vineyards matches the handle for Oliver, B.C.’s Desert Hills Estate Winery.
According to the federal authorities’s itemizing of corporations 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 numerous different corporations regarding the remedy of short-term worldwide workers.
“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 underneath the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
Out of 957 offenses supplied on the federal authorities web web site on condition that 2016, only one varied different agency has truly been fully prohibited from the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
