Canada: Job broker convicted

Publicado: 25 Enero 2010
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Besides, Josephine Garcia Ramoso, who operated as the employment broker "4 J's Garcia," will have to repay 15.000 dollars she collected from people promising to recruit their relatives in the Philippines to jobs in Alberta. These people were never offered jobs.



Alberta's Fair Trading Act forbids employment agencies from charging workers to find them jobs.



Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, said the "token fees" Ramoso has to pay are too small to deter unscrupulous brokers, and government action against them is underwhelming.



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http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/broker+conviction+praised/2472978/story.html