{"id":46456,"date":"2015-04-08T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T03:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=46456"},"modified":"2015-04-08T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T03:34:15","slug":"pinay-caregiver-in-bc-gets-over-55000-in-court-case-for-virtual-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/08\/pinay-caregiver-in-bc-gets-over-55000-in-court-case-for-virtual-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinay caregiver in BC gets over $55,000 in court case for &#8216;Virtual Slavery&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShutterStock image<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">MANILA<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0\u2013 The Human Rights Tribunal for Virtual Slavery in British Columbia has awarded over CAD $55,000 to a Filipina caregiver\u2014one of the biggest court rulings in the Tribunal&#8217;s history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The Filipina, simply named as &#8220;PN&#8221; in court documents, was \u00a0brought to Canada by a couple from Hong Kong in July 2013 to be a caregiver for the couple&#8217;s two children and was being paid a measly CAD $600 every month. Back in Hong Kong, &#8220;PN&#8221; was forced to work over 17 hours a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her employment continued to be a nightmare when the husband sexually harrassed her and the wife reportedly &#8220;humiliated and abused&#8221; her, according to an ABS-CBN &#8216;Balitang Amerika&#8217; report. The said incident happened while 28-year-old &#8220;PN&#8221; was still staying with the family in a hotel after moving to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PN&#8221; was able to escspe her employers when she threw out the garbage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShutterStock image \u00a0 MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Human Rights Tribunal for Virtual Slavery in British Columbia has awarded over CAD $55,000 to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-immigration","mauthors-ching-dee","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}