Last year, Toronto Star reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh went undercover at a Toronto factory where a temp agency worker died to find out how the rise of precarious work is impacting worker safety and reshaping our economy. On Monday afternoon at AIHce, she discussed her findings working inside one of the continent's biggest industrial bakeries that relies heavily on temps — as well as her experience reporting other occupational health and safety issues.
Mojtehedzadeh wrote an article last year called “Undercover in Temp Nation” after a temporary worker died on the job at Fiera Foods in Toronto, an industrial bakery. She went undercover in the same factory for one month, exposing dangerous work environments where temp agency workers are abused or injured on the job. Her work brought to light how the factory did not comply with many health and safety regulations at the expense of their temp employees and how badly those workers were treated.