Francisco Javier Montaño de Dios says he worked seven weeks of the 17 weeks he’s been in New Brunswick and expected two more months of work. (Hadeel Ibrahim/CBC)
Temporary foreign workers who lost weeks of work during a slow lobster season are speaking out against a Canadian system that bars them from finding other jobs when the employer who hired them has nothing for them to do.
Lobster processing workers in New Brunswick are struggling this year with low catch and a weather-shortened season.
When there’s no lobster to process, local New Brunswick employees have employment insurance, savings and other work. The
