Rather than spend a couple paragraphs before getting to the reason, I'll give the reason why the Tim Horton fast food chain started to hire migrant workers by 2012.
A few Canadians think they are too good to work in menial jobs such as a fast food worker at Tim Horton's. In contrast, a migrant worker is less likely to complain about work conditions in a fast food restaurant in Canada.
Thus, we Canadians are the reason why migrant workers get exploited by Tim Horton's.
For every Canadian who thinks she's too good to work at a fast food restaurant, there are a dozen workers who will have to walk 1-5 miles in the middle of a Saskatchewan winter to work, and get a work check missing holiday pay.
IMO it's legit to blame able-bodied people who turn their noses up at the prospect to work at Tim Horton's. I personally don't think there is anything wrong to get food services training and make a lot of cash in tips working at a bar, either.
Tim Horton's thinks of the bottom line: minimum wages for earnest workers who love working at their restaurants in Canada beats trying to find a good job in their home country.
I certainly support the right of any worker, migrant or Canada-born, to get the same rate of pay as Canadian workers who work for minimum wage.
However, there is nothing wrong with working at minimum wage at a fast food restaurant, provided that the worker has food services training.
Originally published on December 12, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Reference:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2012/12/11/f-temporary-foreign-worker-program-tim-hortons-canada.html
Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
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20130605
I'm the Face of the Working Poor
My wage is $2.50 more than the $10/hour minimum wage for BC Canada, which means I'm not even median. $16/hour is median.
However, my job is seasonal. To keep a roof over my head, I also get a monthly PWD Income Assistance similar to US SSI due to workplace injury in 2004.
That's about $740/month. Because my work is seasonal, it usually never is above $9600/year. As well, Social Services has me on the $9600/year season worker option. So far I've earned about $1200 as of June 2013. The best times are yet to come for me — July and August are ideal for concerts.
Oh, and if I worked a full-time job in my field, the stress would worsen the side effects of my work related injury which is a concussion. The side effects include insomnia leading to mania and risk of psychosis. There may be a risk for PTSD symptoms depending on the time I work (graveyard shifts cause hypervigilance).
What's my occupation? Security guard. Though my particular forté is crowd management. We're the security guards who are found at music concerts interacting with the crowd behind the security fence at stage front.
Our job is basically to ensure the safety and security of fans and their bands.
However, my job is seasonal. To keep a roof over my head, I also get a monthly PWD Income Assistance similar to US SSI due to workplace injury in 2004.
That's about $740/month. Because my work is seasonal, it usually never is above $9600/year. As well, Social Services has me on the $9600/year season worker option. So far I've earned about $1200 as of June 2013. The best times are yet to come for me — July and August are ideal for concerts.
Oh, and if I worked a full-time job in my field, the stress would worsen the side effects of my work related injury which is a concussion. The side effects include insomnia leading to mania and risk of psychosis. There may be a risk for PTSD symptoms depending on the time I work (graveyard shifts cause hypervigilance).
What's my occupation? Security guard. Though my particular forté is crowd management. We're the security guards who are found at music concerts interacting with the crowd behind the security fence at stage front.
Our job is basically to ensure the safety and security of fans and their bands.
20110125
Hardly Working
In America, productivity is measured by the lengths the average joe goes to earn $5.60 an hour.
A man who works 72 hours / week @ $5.60 but effectively nets after taxes and expenses $1.12 an hour only gets $80.64 a week.
This works out to $4032 a year or $336 of money a month to spend on luxuries, possibly most of it going to rent, smokes, the occasional recreational drug, and other sundries.
He would still be considered a working poor stiff, even if he invested $1200 a year in a good RRSP, if they let him invest $100 a month.
It appears to me that a person would have to give up drinking, and switch to medical marijuana mixed with tobacco to make his own cigarettes to save money in that arena.
I am unsure if this can be done for less than $100 a month.
As well, I do not know how many low income rentals could be found in America for $126 or less a month.
OTOH, for $150 a month it is possible to invest strongly in medical marijuana and become a cannabis activist. Hopefully, the rest of your money could be used wisely for a cannabis-friendly lawyer who'd work pro bono, just to insulate you from DEA oppression. ;)
In Canada, with BC having a minimum wage of $8.50/hr and a youth wage of $6/hr, it may be easier to meet one's financial goal whilst seemingly appearing hardly working!
A man who works 72 hours / week @ $5.60 but effectively nets after taxes and expenses $1.12 an hour only gets $80.64 a week.
This works out to $4032 a year or $336 of money a month to spend on luxuries, possibly most of it going to rent, smokes, the occasional recreational drug, and other sundries.
He would still be considered a working poor stiff, even if he invested $1200 a year in a good RRSP, if they let him invest $100 a month.
It appears to me that a person would have to give up drinking, and switch to medical marijuana mixed with tobacco to make his own cigarettes to save money in that arena.
I am unsure if this can be done for less than $100 a month.
As well, I do not know how many low income rentals could be found in America for $126 or less a month.
OTOH, for $150 a month it is possible to invest strongly in medical marijuana and become a cannabis activist. Hopefully, the rest of your money could be used wisely for a cannabis-friendly lawyer who'd work pro bono, just to insulate you from DEA oppression. ;)
In Canada, with BC having a minimum wage of $8.50/hr and a youth wage of $6/hr, it may be easier to meet one's financial goal whilst seemingly appearing hardly working!
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