SADIQ HAYAT

After pounding the pavement for a job in his field for a year and half, Sadiq turned to odd jobs to make ends meet. He very quickly understood the lengths companies will go to keep from having to provide workers with security, benefits, and fair wages.

Sadiq’s last job in Pakistan was as a general plant manager for a British company, a position he held for 13 years. When political unrest prompted him to immigrant to Canada, he expected to parlay that experience into a similar position here. Yet over and over again, Sadiq was told his “lack of Canadian experience” made him unhirable.

Here, Sadiq tells of the “injustice” he has encountered with employers, even with those employment service agencies that claim to connect qualified immigrant workers with viable jobs but instead, he says, lay traps that countless desperate immigrants fall into.

There is no justice. The labour department is not actually implementing the labour laws.