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How Canadian Companies Continue to Screw Employees

My father is a helicopter pilot and I was doing my normal complaining about being a minimum wage slave when we started discussing international students being able to “legally” work in Canada. He then tells me this story of how the pilot industry is loaded with these temporary workers they would bring in from timbucktoo on temp visas and pay them a fraction of a normal pilots salary sending them to all these remote areas with them being forced to stay at camp during their time offs. Some people at the government some how caught onto this and required them to advertise these positions before opting out for a temp worker. These companies then started posting employment opportunities in the most remote parts of the country where no one was qualified to work for them knowing they wouldn’t get any resumes which would in turn force them to hire cheap…


My father is a helicopter pilot and I was doing my normal complaining about being a minimum wage slave when we started discussing international students being able to “legally” work in Canada. He then tells me this story of how the pilot industry is loaded with these temporary workers they would bring in from timbucktoo on temp visas and pay them a fraction of a normal pilots salary sending them to all these remote areas with them being forced to stay at camp during their time offs. Some people at the government some how caught onto this and required them to advertise these positions before opting out for a temp worker. These companies then started posting employment opportunities in the most remote parts of the country where no one was qualified to work for them knowing they wouldn’t get any resumes which would in turn force them to hire cheap temp workers. They would also post on the job posting that the pilots are required to have x degree and a certain amount of flight hours knowing the locals didnt have the opportunity to gain these flight hours in the first place do to the low employment opportunities for this career all as a way to ensure cheap temp labour. This got me thinking that maybe other companies posting these insane entry level job requirements do the same to hope no one actually applies and they can outsource to cheap temps. Not saying this is the case for every company but it did leave me to think about it being a possibility that other companies are participating in such a scheme. Let me know what u think

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