Welcoming the World to Vancouver: Temporary Foreign Workers on the Canada Line Construction Project
- Date
2010-05-20
- Authors
Janine Benedet
- Abstract
This paper focuses on a series of discrimination complaints arising out of one of these employment settings – the boring of a tunnel for a major expansion of rapid transit in the city of Vancouver. These complaints, which are still proceeding through the appeal process, succeeded, but only in part. This short paper considers the interaction between Canada’s laws on discrimination and collective bargaining and reflects on the meaning of discrimination based on national origin in a globalized labour market.
- Conference name
IALS General Assembly Conference on Labour Law and Labour Market in the New World Economy
- Conference location
University of Milan Faculty of Law
- Number of pages
5
- File Attachments
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Benedet_2009.pdf27.9 KB
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- Economic sectors
Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations - general
- Content types
Policy analysis, Documented cases of abuse, and Statistics on work and life conditions
- Target groups
Researchers and Unions
- Geographical focuses
British Columbia
- Spheres of activity
Law
- Languages
English