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Surrey-Newton MP Jinny Sims Clears Air On Discriminating Job Ad For Punjabi-Speaking Callers

IANS, 11 Aug, 2015 11:59 AM
    An Indo-Canadian politician has come out with a clarification over a job posting by her party that allegedly offered lower wages to Punjabi-speaking callers than their English-speaking counterparts, said a media report.
     
    India-born Jinny Sims' New Democratic Party (NDP) had come under criticism after the ad on classified advertisements website Craigslist, placed by Express Employment Professionals, offering merely $13 per hour to Punjabi-speaking callers while the party was paying $17 an hour for English-speaking canvassers, the media reported.
     
    Sims, who represents the electoral district of Surrey-Newton in the Canadian House of Commons, blamed the subcontractor for the discrepancy.
     
    "The NDP contracted with a company called Stratcom, who in turn subcontracted with a job agency to recruit two (canvassers). We did not know about the subcontractor. However, when Stratcom learned the (canvassers) were paid less than $17 per hour, their salaries were immediately topped up," Sims was quoted as saying in a statement.
     
     
    "Contrary to spin by the Liberals and Conservative, the subcontractor pays exactly the same rate to all of its (canvassers), which is $17," she added.
     
    Sims was elected in the 2011 election.
     
    She migrated from India to England at the age of nine and earned a bachelor's of education degree from the Victoria University of Manchester (now the University of Manchester).
     
    Sims moved to Canada in 1975.

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