Canada comes down hard on McDonald's franchisee in Victoria

Glen  Bishop the franchisee of the three Victoria outlets is now facing a probe by the Employment Ministry.

Kathy Tomlinson writing at CBCNews:
....McDonald’s is under federal investigation   over possible abuses of the Temporary Foreign Worker program at a franchise outlet in B.C.

"The pattern is that the temporary foreign workers are getting more shifts and that the Canadians are getting less,” said employee Kalen Christ, a McDonald’s "team leader" who has worked at the Victoria location for four years.

As a result of Go Public’s inquiries, the government has suspended all pending foreign worker permits for the three McDonald’s locations owned by franchisee Glen Bishop and has blacklisted his franchise from using the program, pending the outcome of the probe.

“Many, many people have been complaining about it,” said Christ.
Employment Minister Jason Kenney’s office said investigators now want to hear from any other affected employees or job applicants, from any McDonald’s outlets in Canada.

The government probe began after Christ told Go Public the fast food outlet is bringing in Filipino workers while cutting local staffers’ hours and turning away dozens of seemingly qualified Canadians seeking jobs.....