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B.C. court finds retailer liable for exploiting up to 880 migrant workers

A judge found Mac’s Convenience Stores and B.C. recruiters used ‘outright lies’ to charge 880 migrants up to $8K for jobs that never existed

Hundreds of migrant workers have won a class action lawsuit against Mac’s Convenience Stores and three B.C. immigration consultant companies after a judge found they had unlawfully charged recruitment fees for jobs that rarely materialized.

In a Thursday, May 28 ruling, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sharon Matthews found Mac’s had entered into employment contracts with the three Surrey-based consultant companies to provide temporary foreign workers for stores across B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories.

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