Sentences with phrase «canadian labour market»

I encounter a lot of resumes from clients from all over the world with information that is simply not acceptable for the Canadian labour market.

Talk to Jim Fearon, Hays Canada VP, on the Canadian labour market, especially construction or Oil and Gas

It's that any change in the role means the «new» role should be opened up to the Canadian labour market, but in many cases, the role has only changed because of the foreign worker's work in the role.

Overseeing the proper work authorization process for international workers entering the Canadian labour market either on behalf of a foreign company or under the employment of a Canadian company.

They're letting employers keep their Temporary Foreign Workers for a longer period of time and they're blocking paths to citizenship that could eliminate the underclass of exploitable guest workers that has been distorting the Canadian labour market.

As permanent residents or citizens, these workers will have full mobility rights within the Canadian labour market, meaning it will be much more difficult for employers to use them as pawns to drive down wages and conditions on individual worksites or across sectors of the economy.

It will put all participants in the Canadian labour market on equal footing.

Closing off the TFW program and granting permanent residency to the workers already here, will re-establish balance and fairness in the Canadian labour market.

Defined broadly, for the purposes of IRPA, a business visitor is a foreign national who seeks to «engage in international business activities in Canada without directly entering the Canadian labour market,» and whose principal place of business, primary source of remuneration and the place of accrual of profits remain outside Canada.

There can be discussion about whether or not the rules are appropriate, or strict enough, or are effective in protecting the Canadian labour market, but when the employer and Service Canada all play by the rules, we can't question the validity of the decision.

The requirement is the hiring of the temporary foreign workers will have a neutral or positive effect on the Canadian labour market.

This includes ensuring the foreign worker has had a positive or neutral effect on the Canadian labour market, and the position being performed is the same as was anticipated in the original application.

Evidence that the issuance of a LMIA and work permit to the applicant will have a neutral or positive effect on the Canadian labour market.

In addition, however, the applicant employer's business plan must essentially address the role of the owner / operator in the business and the kind of jobs that will be created or preserved in the Canadian labour market in addition to the conventional aspects of a business plan, such as the business objectives and financial targets.

Work is defined in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act as any activity for which wages are paid or commission is earned, or that is in direct competition with the activities of Canadian citizens or permanent residents in the Canadian labour market.

Chapter in: Precarious Employment in the Canadian Labour Market.

We really have to have a fundamental reconsideration of where the Canadian labour market is going.

Although Canadian interest rates may not rise in 2017, a surprising jobs report in December showed the Canadian labour market grew up by 53,700 jobs, compared to expectations of a 2,500 decline.

While the United States experienced net job losses in 2001 and 2002, the Canadian labour market surged with 2002 in particular being the strongest recorded labour market growth on record.

The Canadian labour market beat expectations and performed strongly in 2017 based on various indicators, specifically job creation and the unemployment rate.

When the Canadian labour market is functioning normally, there are large flows of hires into employment and not - quite - so large flows of separations out of employment: the relatively small difference between the two is the change in total employment.

So the Canadian labour market has more or less resumed its normal flows in and out of employment and unemployment, while flows in the U.S. have not.

The data suggests to us that material slack remains in the Canadian labour market, in contrast with the U.S. labour market, which is close to full employment.

Even with the right skills and knowledge, many immigrants face difficulties entering the Canadian labour market.

In many cases, business visitors may work in Canada without a work permit, so long as they don't enter the Canadian labour market.

Candidates for Canadian immigration who have at least one year of skilled work experience are deemed more likely to be able to assimilate into the Canadian labour market.

A LMIA is a document that serves as proof that there will be a positive or neutral impact to the Canadian labour market if the employer hires the foreign worker.

Unlike the Canadian labour market, which is recovering as it always has after a recession, the U.S. jobs landscape is still a long away from normal.

«Foreign work experience is largely discounted by Canadian employers when the immigrant first enters the Canadian labour market, and it is a weak predictor of economic success,» the analysis said.

«These changes will reflect the relative value Canadian employers place on foreign work experience, and redirect points to language and age factors, which are better indicators of success in the Canadian labour market.»

But by controlling for these factors, we see that the Canadian labour market is not particularly strong.

Part of the explanation for this can be seen in the stark difference between the United States and Canadian labour markets during this time.

«Poloz remains focused on the soft spots in Canadian labour markets and exports, and is not yet ready to declare Canada «out of the woods» when it comes to unevenness in economic growth.»

Not exact matches

In recent years, the Canadian immigration regime has increasingly aligned with labour market needs.

The main risk to the market continues to be the vulnerability of the highly indebted households to a slump in the labour market, says Jamie Feehely, managing director of Canadian Structured Finance at DBRS.

Combined with women, he said assisting more young people, Indigenous peoples, recent immigrants and Canadians living with disabilities to enter the job market could help the labour force expand by half a million people.

She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.

The review comes in the wake of a report from an expert panel the government struck last year that came up with 13 recommendations to help young Canadians get into and thrive in a changing labour market.

Canadian employers are working harder and spending more to recruit recent post-secondary graduates in an increasingly competitive labour market, a new report indicates.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

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We sourced the oilsands direct jobs figure from The Decade Ahead: Labour Market Outlook to 2022 for Canada's Oil and Gas Industry, a 2013 Petroleum Human Resources Council report that was funded in part by the Government of Canada and The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

As a result, unemployment rose and many Canadians withdrew from the labour market altogether.

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

Automation, artificial intelligence and other innovations will benefit the Canadian economy by boosting productivity and living standards, but they could also have less desirable side effects on the labour market and income distribution that will have to be managed, Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins said today.

«The bulk of the funding is still coming from that (Labour Market Agreements) program, and that's on the backs of our marginalized, out - of - work Canadians, and that's the piece that provinces and territories simply can not accept.»

The federal government should establish and promote a comprehensive, national database of labour market information that is available to all Canadians;

While the labour market is now getting better rather than worse, some 1.5 million Canadians remain officially unemployed.

Concerns over negative economic impacts, such as a widening trade deficit with China, increased control of certain sectors by Chinese state - owned enterprises (SOEs), and intensified competition in the labour market for mid-skilled and less educated Canadian workers in particular; [1]