McDonald's Canada CEO calls foreign worker controversy 'bull****'

BruSan

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Well part of the problem comes from employers doing the same thing they learned eons ago in the U.S. whereas you have labour laws formatted around number of hours worked per week making you eligible for things like minimum weeks of vacation, overtime pay, maternity leave etc., Sooo.....,if you employ MORE temps and give them a twenty hour week each while reducing your perms, you can actually afford to pay them a higher base wage because you've forever gotten rid of your other, more costly obligations.


It would seem a good number of you would like to see Canada reduced to the type of third world existence where a number of families share the rent of a five room house and live like that for years until they can afford to rent one of their own.


Kenny and his bullcrap about Canadians losing their jobs due to some restaurants closing is talking about some kid working for peanuts and only getting a couple of shifts a week. Those jobs should go in the crapper. Fewer fast food joints and Quicky Marts aren't going to hurt the economy one stinking bit.


Pay a decent wage and you won't have a problem filling positions with workers that will stick around. Pay crappy wages and of course Citizens are going to demure if they have any brains at all.


Try talking to some of the employees working in these joints and ask them critical questions like how many hours per week they're getting. I think for the most part you'll find they're not getting enough hours to put food on the table UNLESS the whole damn family works there or somewhere else just as bad and in essence they all become McD's, Walmart or 7/11 slaves.


Not the country I'd claim to be proud of allowing that chit to continue.
 

Twila

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Haven't been in one in 20 years. When a Dobie wouldn't eat a rotten ronnie burger I figured I shouldn't either.



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When a dog turns up jts nose at "food" thats advice you can trust. What did it for me was when I tried to eat a cold hamburger and it was the most foul fake food textured grossness I have ever had in my mouth on purpose. If you can't 't eat it as left overs it ain't food.

If all they are good for is spreading their legs,then lets get them into communities where there are a surplus of single working men that can mary them or shack up with them.
Seriously? wheres's your head at, douchebag.
 

gerryh

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Seriously? wheres's your head at, douchebag.


You gotta be psychic, I would say that that is EXACTLY where his head is.

oh, and you only get half a thumbs up, I don't agree with your description of their food.
 

Retired_Can_Soldier

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Seriously? wheres's your head at, douchebag.

I'm seeing the word rectum.
 

PoliticalNick

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Well part of the problem comes from employers doing the same thing they learned eons ago in the U.S. whereas you have labour laws formatted around number of hours worked per week making you eligible for things like minimum weeks of vacation, overtime pay, maternity leave etc., Sooo.....,if you employ MORE temps and give them a twenty hour week each while reducing your perms, you can actually afford to pay them a higher base wage because you've forever gotten rid of your other, more costly obligations.


It would seem a good number of you would like to see Canada reduced to the type of third world existence where a number of families share the rent of a five room house and live like that for years until they can afford to rent one of their own.


Kenny and his bullcrap about Canadians losing their jobs due to some restaurants closing is talking about some kid working for peanuts and only getting a couple of shifts a week. Those jobs should go in the crapper. Fewer fast food joints and Quicky Marts aren't going to hurt the economy one stinking bit.


Pay a decent wage and you won't have a problem filling positions with workers that will stick around. Pay crappy wages and of course Citizens are going to demure if they have any brains at all.


Try talking to some of the employees working in these joints and ask them critical questions like how many hours per week they're getting. I think for the most part you'll find they're not getting enough hours to put food on the table UNLESS the whole damn family works there or somewhere else just as bad and in essence they all become McD's, Walmart or 7/11 slaves.


Not the country I'd claim to be proud of allowing that chit to continue.

You have a couple of good points here. I know for a fact Loblaws mandates their managers to cap most employees hours at 28 or 30 hours a week (32 hours gives them full-time status and entitlement to benefits) but they don't make up for that with higher wages, they pocket the savings just like every other corporation. In comparison Loblaws also expects salaried employees (managers & supervisors) to work 50-60 hours a week giving them an equivalent wage somewhere near minimum.

So how do we fix this type of employee abuse? First we raise the minimum wage to above the poverty line. Stats Canada places the poverty line at about $22K/yr for a family with 1 child so minimum wage should reflect that and make a 40hr/wk job pay $22k/yr or more. We also need to mandate that corps who get around paying benefits by making 90% of their employees part-time simply have to offer benefits to everyone over 18. Taking away the incentives from corps to play the 'part-time' system will actually encourage them to hire more full-time staff. We also need to limit the amount of TFWs each business can employ. Here in Edson there are many teenagers looking for summer/part-time work and they cannot get a sniff at Mcdonalds or Tim Hortons because the management are TFWs and all they employ is TFWs.

I have to also keep coming back to changing our social programs so healthy, employable people get a moving allowance and a monthly living allowance for 2 months instead of welfare or EI. I don't care if you were born in Quebec and all your family is in Quebec, if you don't have a job in Quebec but you can have one in Alberta get moving, get your family to support you or starve, no more riding the public fund because you won't move to support yourself or your family.
 

mentalfloss

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Twila

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Jason Kenney’s reputation takes a beating as controversy rages over temporary foreign workers

The employment minister was on the defensive Monday in the House of Commons, but he’s also under attack from business groups, labour unions and — perhaps most troubling for Kenney with a federal election looming — everyday Canadians who believe the Conservatives have made it easier for foreigners to swipe their jobs.

I don't think the fear is that foreigners will swipe Canadian jobs so much as the fear that foreigners willing to work for slave wages and tolerate being treated like slaves will mean that Canadians won't have jobs that pay a living wage.

A living wage being a wage that you can have hopes and dreams on. That you could take a vacation on. That you could pay down debt and pay into retirement.
 

EagleSmack

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I don't think the fear is that foreigners will swipe Canadian jobs so much as the fear that foreigners willing to work for slave wages and tolerate being treated like slaves will mean that Canadians won't have jobs that pay a living wage.

A living wage being a wage that you can have hopes and dreams on. That you could take a vacation on. That you could pay down debt and pay into retirement.

Well said Twilla. I do hope Canada get get their arms around this because cold or no cold there will be enough that will come to Canada for these jobs.

In the US at one point it was just the food service jobs, agriculture, landscaping jobs. The problem is much more widespread and all contractors are taking advantage of this. Roofers, laborers, carpenters, etc. All of the companies are doing this now. It is much easier and MUCH more lucrative to hire a legal or illegal immigrant than an American. It is part of our system now.
 

relic

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The main reason for not moving to Alberta is, too many Albertans. No really, I worked in Windfall, there were twenty some people ONE was Albertan, the rest were from Ontario or the Maritimes
 

Twila

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The main reason for not moving to Alberta is, too many Albertans. No really, I worked in Windfall, there were twenty some people ONE was Albertan, the rest were from Ontario or the Maritimes

hmmm, that sounds like BC. Everyone in BC is from somewhere else...I've met only a handful of people born and raised in BC. I'm not even from BC. Born in Alberta.