Shaw broke employment law with contract workers

lamjin

Two former Shaw Communications employees are blowing the whistle on how the telecommunications giant broke employment law for years.
Rob Browridge and Tasha Lowe say Shaw underpaid them by declaring them independent contractors when they should have been paid as employees.
“It’s really mean. It seems mean-spirited to me,” Browridge said. “The amount that I was getting paid was pretty brutal … with no benefits, with nothing.”
“You would expect something like this maybe from a smaller business or something, but this is a company that is highly profitable. They can afford to pay people properly,” added Tasha Lowe.
Browridge was a cameraman and Lowe was an editor with Shaw’s community TV division in Vancouver. They worked there at different times, each for more than two years.
Documents show Shaw dictated their full-time hourly pay and schedule. However, they received no pay for overtime worked, no vacation pay and no deductions for taxes, Canada Pension Plan or Employment Insurance. They said Shaw told them that’s because they were considered self-employed "independent contractors."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/03/08/bc-shaw-contracts.html

lamjin

blow the whistle on 。。
很好的表达。

lacychang

They are whistle blowers.