EDMONTON — It didn’t take long for Namneet Singh to find full-time employment again, after a fire in Jasper, Alta., last week destroyed the hotel he had worked at for more than a year.
Singh, who was among hundreds of temporary foreign workers earning a living in the picturesque Rocky Mountain town, was on shift when the community was ordered to evacuate the night of July 22.
He helps them better the odds of getting work by helping them apply for open-work permits rather than permits that are employer-specific."At night when I try to sleep, I'm having nightmares,” Singh said in an interview. The centre’s executive director, Heidi Veluw, who employed Singh part time before the fire, said it’s likely her organization will be operating for a while out of the church.
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