A study out of the University of British Columbia recently found migrant workers in the B.C. Okanagan living in extreme heat conditions beyond what the Western Agricultural Labour Initiative guidelines allow.
Nearly three-quarters of the time, the federal governing body responsible for keeping tabs on employers of migrant workers are giving them a heads up prior to arrival.
“There are these inspections that are supposed to happen in terms of making sure that employers are following all rules on housing, and to be honest, a lot of those rules and standards are already quite low,” Weiler said. “What told us is sometimes employers would be told in advance: ‘Hey, we're coming to inspect your housing,’ and that this would give unscrupulous employers time to essentially stage housing that met requirements,” Weiler said.
Other provincial inspections are typically done through government agencies. Ontario, for example, requires employers hiring temporary foreign workers to be compliant through their health authority, Weiler says. In theory, Weiler says the federal government can do random audits of employers during the season, but in practice, they don’t have the capacity to send public servants all over the country for rigorous inspections of farm worker housing, leaving critical gaps in the system.
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