{"id":70130,"date":"2016-02-05T01:53:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T06:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=70130"},"modified":"2016-02-05T01:53:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T06:53:26","slug":"edmonton-woman-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-employing-foreign-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/05\/edmonton-woman-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-employing-foreign-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton woman pleads guilty to illegally employing foreign nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65578\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled design\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON\u2014After a five-year investigation by Canada Border Services into foreign nationals working in the country, an Edmonton woman has pleaded guilty to two counts under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.<\/p>\n<p>Jennilyn Morris was charged in connection with close to 70 people working improperly in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2007 and 2010, Canada Border Services says Morris employed at least 68 foreign nationals who were not authorized to work in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign nationals were in Canada as visitors or with work permits for other employers.<\/p>\n<p>It is an offence to employ foreign nationals in a capacity in which they are not authorized to be employed.<\/p>\n<p>In three cases, people from the Philippines were induced to come to Canada, and then not paid what was promised for their labour.<\/p>\n<p>Morris&#8217;s sentencing hearing will begin May 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON\u2014After a five-year investigation by Canada Border Services into foreign nationals working in the country, an Edmonton woman has pleaded &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-70130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70130","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}