Role Description
This is a part-time on-site volunteer role at Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto, ON. As a volunteer, you will be responsible for assisting with various tasks and providing support to the staff. This may include helping customers find products, restocking shelves, organizing inventory, and maintaining a clean and organized store environment. Your role as a volunteer is crucial in ensuring that our customers have a positive and seamless shopping experience.
What kind of exploitative capitalism do we have in Canada? And how is this allowed? This is utterly ridiculous!
Surprise, they’re owned by Loblaws
If you think this is bad, look more into the Canadian temporary foreign worker program which a UN report recently called modern day slavery: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/un-special-rapporteur-migrant-worker-program-modern-form-of-slavery-1.6958592
Yeah it’s not just Canada. It’s done in every industrialized country. They do this in Europe including Scandinavian countries where they import African labor for agriculture (for instance they bring in African pickers for blue berries, etc). Same in Japan and Korea I believe.
And how is this allowed?
It isn’t.
We are reaching the final logical conclusions of capitalism with Canadian characteristics.
They will allow Amazon to build their " all inclusive " worksites where the workers can’t actually leave. These megacorporations are more powerful then the state is.
Welcome to the cyberpunk future.
Welcome to the Hudson Bay Company.
So, the owner of this specific store posted it. As much as I hate how Loblaws has been capitalizing on peoples’ needs, this isn’t Loblaws, it’s the owner of one store.
But this also breaks labour laws. For-profit organizations can’t hire volunteers because it breaks minimum wage laws. An exception would be an internship for school.
Best thing to do is report it.
So, the owner of this specific store posted it. As much as I hate how Loblaws has been capitalizing on peoples’ needs, this isn’t Loblaws, it’s the owner of one store.
Do you know that for sure? I found this from seven months ago, if it’s the same manager, he seems to be getting away with it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShoppersDrugMart/s/aq09aOePkg
Pharmacy Assistant vs Volunteer
I’ve applied to about 15 SDM branches across Toronto for the past month until today. My applications were mixed. Even if I applied online, I also visit the branch to personally drop my resume. There was this one branch who told me that it’s nearly impossible to get inside SDM as a pharmacy assistant without Canadian pharmacy experience. I was a licensed pharmacist in my home country and I practiced clinical pharmacy for over 2 years.
According to him, the best way to get in the system and their records will be as a volunteer. He was kinda of disappointed with how the system works, claiming that SDM encourages volunteerism to save a lot on training costs. Is it true that being a volunteer will help me out once there is a vacancy or an opening for a pharmacy assistant slot? Can I use it on my future applications as well?
It sounds like the Labour Relations Board should be made aware of this branch.
Yea because Loblaws certainly doesn’t have corporate control of its stores…
They do. It’s likely that they aren’t aware that this store is trying to pull something illegal. Another form of action is to message Loblaws about this to make them aware.
Oh, just what Loblaws needs right now, more good press
Well, great another cross post to a boring dystopia. Thanks loblaws
That’s a new low. What could be next? Loblaw asks employees to pay them for each hour they spend in their stores as some sort of redevance?
The employees are using parking spots that should be going to paying customers.
That Keurig in the break room? It costs money to run.
These are the kind of things that keep us business owners up at night.
/s
Do they give me free drugs in exchange? Which ones?
You get to take the extra pills home at the end of the day, like a heat lamp in a fast food place after close
They have to be kidding me!
I had a really hard time parsing the title. Though it meant that Shoppers were drugging Mart Recruiting Volunteers (whatever that is) in order to get their stores staffed.
I need more coffee.
They paid more and care more about the ad than they do for human beings.
As per labour law, this is legal as long as their duties don’t overlap with paid employees
Based on the job description, it sounds like every one of their tasks overlaps with paid employees…
If there are no paid employees then there is no overlap.
Pretty sure that’s illegal… at least under US law.
I kinda want to see who actually posted that shit and who made the decision. Over/under it is some fat boomer lol
This is in Canada so US law is irrelevant. And your “fat” thing is a bit offensive.
Statistics don’t lie… Them clowns are diabitus ridden land whales.
Is it legal to make people work for free in Canada.
Aksing for friend ;)
