First, restaurant chains started replacing human jobs with machines.
They're outsourcing cashier jobs to people in other parts of the world, paying them less than the local minimum wage.
The Toronto Star reports that Freshii, a grocery and deli chain based in Canada, is experimenting with remote employees to assist in the checkout process.
According to the report, some of these employees are calling in all the way from Nicaragua and making as little as $2.93 an hour, which may be in line with employment standards in Nicaragua, but way below Canada's federal minimum wage of around $12.14
The technology is meant to help grocery chains bring in workers from other countries.
Some people disagree with the arrangement being fair.
The Canadian Labor Congress told Global News that you are exploiting workers in another country who have a lesser working standard, who have a much smaller minimum wage.
Many social media users have expressed outrage at Freshii's tactic.
If you cared about Earth, you would care about the people who live there. Either keep the jobs in Canada or pay people in Nicaragua what they would make in Canada.
It is a bad look for the company.
We need jobs that pay taxes in Canada and that help boost our economic activity, according to Bruske.
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