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November 30 | Foreign workers roam our fields every summer to stock our fruit and vegetable displays, but some employers fail to recognize the value of these employees. This is the case of Jean Lemay, who became the first to be banned from hiring this workforce due to violations of labor laws. About 20 agricultural workers in Guatemala bore the brunt of this situation, left without work and without pay for more than a month. “We can see it clearly in their faces that they would have liked that, to work and to feed their family a little more”, testifies Jacques Nadeau. In this hotel reception hall, “we had two minutes,” he recalls. “What was most important was that they were comfortable, that they did what they wanted, that they had a sense of freedom, in the hallway.” Jacques Nadeau The Duty