Jeanett Moskito has two companies - Link4Staff and Berderald Consulting - that she uses to scam migrant workers.
Philippines consulates in Israel and Canada both warn people from using her services and she’s still posting on the Job Bank.
A months-long investigation reveals she is one of the Ontario Ministry of Labour’s most notorious repeat offenders, caught 35 times taking payments from dozens of foreign workers in exchange for finding them jobs — which is illegal across Canada.
So far, Moskito’s punishment has been to pay back the money she took illegally — a total of about $200,000 — along with paying a handful of ministry-imposed $250 fines.
In the article: rotten story from a young dad who’s now living in a homeless shelter; the CEO of Hoco Hotels in Stratford, Ont claims ignorance and says he’s “not happy”; and comments from 2 Filipino Canadian immigration lawyers, the MoL (bland “changes are coming” “we won’t tolerate bad actors”) and Migrante Ontario.
This is part of the conversation on immigration that’s missing: we’re treating guest workers and new Canadians like a resource to be mined.
We’re getting people to come here with various promises, and then allowing unscrupulous assholes to exploit them. Some of those assholes are “consultants”, and recruiters. Others are employers. Some are post secondary institutions offering garbage degrees/certificates. And we can’t forget landlords.
It’s funny because considering immigrants welfare would probably have cut down on numbers: we’d have open work permits, rather than TFWs; useful education programs, rather than puppy mills; and we’d ensure access to services/housing for new arrivals.