Investigation launched into dwelling circumstances of Jamaican farm employees protesting in Ontario

An investigation has been ordered by Jamaica’s Minister of Labor, Pearnel Charles Jr into the dwelling and dealing circumstances of Jamaican farm employees in Ontario, Canada.

This follows complaints in regards to the employees’ dwelling circumstances. 

Based on a media launch from the ministry, the farm employees protested on Thursday.

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The ministry stated that liaison officers had been instructed to go to the positioning and make a report on the employees’ circumstances.

It additionally stated that it’s dedicated to making sure that Jamaican farm employees are supplied with the perfect working and dwelling circumstances. 

“The Ministry of Labor and Social Safety stays unrelenting in its efforts to safeguard the protection and well being of our farm employees, and can proceed to work with our companions, to make sure that the remedy of farm employees abroad is in step with the anticipated world requirements,” it continued.

Final 12 months, farm employees on the Seasonal Agricultural Staff Program in Canada reported that they had been being made to work beneath poor circumstances. 

Because of the issues, a seven-member fact-finding group was appointed to research the working circumstances of the employees.

Nonetheless, a report in April from the investigation revealed that almost all of employees had been happy with this system.