“We want to keep them. It’s not cheap labor ”: this boss will lose 20 foreign workers

A Quebec manufacturer of mobile partitions has been the decisions of governments that will make him lose a good 20 temporary foreign workers (TET).

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“We give them jobs full time. Meanwhile, We want to keep them. Meanwhile, It is not cheap labor», Harts Stephan Julien, CEO of Modeco, a second generation SME of Saint-Hubert.

At its Montreal Shore South Shore, we start at $ 22 an hour. Furthermore, We quickly go up to $ 24 a time in the evening. Furthermore, The salary then jumped if you become a chef or supervisor.

Last Saturday. Moreover, The newspaper Reported that entrepreneurs continue Ottawa “we want keep them. it’s for nearly $ 300 million because they want to know anything about the new rules that come to remove precious factory arms in the worst time.

The vice-president of market strategist at Tremcar. Mélanie Dufresne, the CEO of Durabac, Patrick Charbonneau, and the lawyer Frédéric Bérard. Photo Francis character

These SMEs do not digest that they will now be entitled to a maximum of 10% of temporary foreign workers. unlike 20% before. The shorter work permits also “we want keep them. it’s ulce them.

«Not sexy»

For Modeco, the impact is important. About twenty workers will have to start overnight on its 200 if nothing changes.

“For the past 15 years. it is not sexier to work in the factory for people of Quebec of origin,” blows Mr. Julien.

“We do not show up for the interviews. We do not enter to work. We leave the work two days later. This is the reality with which we have to deal with, ”he sighs.

What shocks Stephan Julien is that governments have pushed to hire immigrants. He must now fight to keep them.

“We already have enough to combine with American prices and uncertainty. A little help from our governments with a grandfather clause to keep those already here would be welcome, “he said.

“It’s frightening”

On the floor of the Modeco factory. the Colombian Oscar Javier Ballestas Saumett, 48, refuses to have “we want keep them. it’s to say goodbye to his maneuver-assembler in Quebec.

“It’s frightening. Be a little more human with our situation, ”says the father of two children in impeccable singing French. Man has a broken heart.

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“I put $ 10,000 in this project. For me, it’s a fortune. Believe me. Finding this money was not easy, ”he adds.

A stone’s throw from him, Julie Cartier, director of human resources, drives the point home.

“It will hurt the economy if we start from scratch,” she sums up.

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Changes that do not pass

• Decrease in the “we want keep them. it’s percentage of temporary foreign workers allowed within a company of 30% to 10%.
• 20% increase in the initial hourly wages required for workers considered at low wages.
• Reduction of the period of validity of impact studies on the labor market.
• Reduction of the maximum duration of employment for temporary foreign workers to one year.

List of companies pursuing the government

1. Industries Dodec Inc. – Machining and mechanical manufacture
2. Durabac Inc. – Manufacturing of steel products (containers, compactors, dumpsters)
3. Produits Belt-Tech Inc. – wholesale trade, rejects and recovery materials
4. Green countertops Inc. – retail, wood and building materials
5. Manac Inc. -Semi-trailers and commercial use trailers
6. Mécan-Hydro Inc. – Wholesale, machines, equipment and industrial supplies
7. Plastic Millet Canada Inc. – Purchase, sale, manufacture of articles/parts/plastic packaging
8. Aeronautical Atlas Inc. – Integrated management, aeronautical supply chain
9. Bernier Ltée Career “we want keep them. it’s – Sablières and Gravières industry
10. Tremcar Inc. -Semi-trailers and commercial use trailers
11. Soleno Inc. – Plastic products
12. Gestion Proco Inc. – Portfolio company (subsidiaries: Proco constructions, CPI structures, Inc. manufacturing)
13. Industries N.R.C. Inc. – Machine factory and equipment
14. Transport A. LABERGE & FILS Inc. – truck
15. Comact Technologies Inc. – Wood processing
16. Metal Perreault Inc. – Steel foundries
17. Clermond Hamel Ltée – sawmills and planing workshops
18. Abattoir Ducharme Inc. – slaughter and packaging of poultry
19. Lepage Milwork Inc. – Renovation of residential buildings
20. Exxel Polymers Inc. – Plastillurgie
21. Artopex Inc. – Wholesale, machines, equipment and office supplies/store
22. Gestion Denis Morneau (1993) Inc. – portfolio company
23. Lemay Outillage Inc. – Manufacturing and machining of punches, matrices and templates