{"id":7808,"date":"2014-04-24T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T04:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2014-04-24T12:35:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T04:35:45","slug":"minister-says-foreign-worker-program-abusers-could-face-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/24\/minister-says-foreign-worker-program-abusers-could-face-fraud-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister says foreign worker program abusers could face fraud charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7211\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jason-Kenney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7211\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jason-Kenney.jpg\" alt=\"Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism Jason Kenny. Photo courtesy of Jason Kenney's official Facebook page.\" width=\"528\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jason-Kenney.jpg 528w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Jason-Kenney-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism Jason Kenny. Photo courtesy of Jason Kenney&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WINNIPEG &#8211; Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney says employers who abuse the temporary foreign workers program could face fraud charges and possible jail time.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney says he believes the number of abuses under the program is small and the government has already been working to tighten the rules.<\/p>\n<p>The government has been under fire for months amid reports of abuse by restaurants and other companies.<\/p>\n<p>The latest controversy involves two long-serving Saskatchewan waitresses who were recently fired from a restaurant in Weyburn while their temporary foreign worker colleagues were spared.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney says a bill now before Parliament would make it easier to impose administrative penalties on offenders.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, he says, employers who lie on their application forms for temporary foreign worker permits can face criminal fraud charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG &#8211; Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney says employers who abuse the temporary foreign workers program could face fraud charges &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19],"tags":[388,2490,2488,2491],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","tag-abuse","tag-foreign","tag-temporary","tag-workers","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","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=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}