A Manitoba pork processing plant is suing a Toronto recruiter and former staffer for allegedly misleading foreign workers and persuading them to quit their jobs at the plant to work with companies from which the recruiter allegedly benefited financially. 'Heard stories like this before'Several workers at the Neepawa plant quit and went on to work for companies selected by A & L Hammer, the lawsuit alleges. "I've heard similar stories like this before," said Diwa Marcelino, who advocates for migrant workers in Manitoba with the organization Migrante. Marcelino said it's common for migrant workers to pay a recruitment agency $5,000 to $10,000 just to land a job most Canadians don't seem to want to do. "The industry has a lot of profit that they can get from migrant workers who switch jobs."

Source: CBC News October 09, 2017 09:56 UTC