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Farm Workers Exempt From New Rules

March 31, 2011

Anew cap on how long temporary foreign workers can work in Canada before having to return home will not apply to seasonal farm workers. Changes to the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), taking effect April 1 will not affect Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, the federal government said in a release Mar. 24. The

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Safety Training For Young Farm Workers Important

By Lorraine Stevenson October 14, 2010

Safety officials are still trying to determine what went wrong on a Carberryarea potato farm where a young worker became entangled in a conveyor last month, but they say the incident underscores the need for ongoing safety training. Carberry RCMP reported Sept. 18 that they were cal led to a farm located west of Carberry

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KAP Receives Grant To Boost Farm Safety

By Lorraine Stevenson March 18, 2010

“This will be quite different than anything we’ve done before because we’ll actually be hiring a couple of people to go to the farms and to work with the farmer and their employees and go through the safety issues right there on the farm.” – KAP PRESIDENT IAN WISHART Farmers who employ workers now have

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Swine Flu Won’t Impact Seasonal Labour Program

By Ron Friesen May 7, 2009

“Our guys have better coverage than your average Manitoban.” – TODD GIFFIN, MAYFAIR FARM The Influenza A H1N1 outbreak in Mexico shouldn’t unduly affect Mexican seasonal farm workers coming to Canada under a federal agricultural employment program, officials said. Participants in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) are pre-screened before leaving Mexico to make sure

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Employment standards now apply to agriculture

By Ron Friesen February 5, 2009

Don Allan was trying to persuade his audience that Manitoba’s new provincial employment standards increase protection for employees working in agriculture. But one producer was having none of it. “It’s not equal between the employee and the employer,” the man insisted. “Workers have more rights than the employer. It’s ridiculous.” Overall, though, his was one

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V-day for farm workers in Ontario

By Kerry Preibisch December 4, 2008

The recent victory in the Ontario Court of Appeal allowing farm workers to form unions and bargain collectively comes after a long, protracted, and exhausting battle to give them the same rights as other workers. Farm workers carry out some of the most dangerous, difficult, and dirty jobs in the country, under conditions most Canadians

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