A man from Mexico says he toiled long hours, seven days a week, for nearly a year without proper pay for a hotel chain that he says took advantage of him and others.

Victor Padilla Ruiz says he came to Canada in 2022 after he was told he would work as a chef at a restaurant for a hotel being opened in Melita, Man., by the Saskatchewan-based Western Star All Suites hotel chain.

Instead, the Mexican national says he w as sent to work as a cook at the chain's location in Esterhazy, Sask.

"If I have to go [do] something outside, they always [were] angry and they tell me, 'Why you are outside?'" Padilla Ruiz told CBC News.

"I cannot speak English. I don't have enough money [to] come back to my country…. I can't work without work permit, and they told me, 'OK, you can start. No worries, i

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