Sentences with phrase «foreign workers at»

Over the last two years, many work permits have been granted that allowed construction companies in Alberta to hire Temporary Foreign Workers at wages below those paid to Canadians.

-- Effective immediately, require employers to pay temporary foreign workers at the prevailing wage by removing the existing wage flexibility of 15 %;

That didn't stop Trump's popularity when it was pointed out countless times that his clothing line is all manufactured in Asia and he hires temporary foreign workers at Mar - a-Lago and other places, all the while he was criticizing other companies for offshore operations.

People in B.C. also lashed out against that provincial government's support for Chinese - owned HD Mining's plan to use temporary foreign workers at a proposed coal mine in Tumbler Ridge.

For software developers, the most common type of foreign tech worker, the green card data show the following percentages of foreign workers at Levels I or II making below - median wages: Amazon 91 %; Facebook 91 %; and Google 96 %.

Canadian unions have begun flexing their muscles in areas previously outside their range — standing up for non-unionized temporary foreign workers at Tim Hortons in B.C. and even, through Unifor, the country's largest union, opening a form of membership to everyone from part - time workers to the unemployed.

More than half of the 243 employers in the province permitted to hire temporary foreign workers at minimum wage over a 10 - month period ended in June were in the food - service business, the Alberta Federation of Labour found recently through a freedom - of - information request.

Not exact matches

Instead of welcoming foreign talent with open arms, Canada makes it exceedingly difficult for them to come to or stay in this country, even at a time when the thriving technology sector is in dire need of skilled knowledge workers.

Galbraith at Thalmic Labs says if the process is too onerous, some companies may opt to hire a foreign worker but keep that person overseas and establish an office abroad.

In June the Canadian government implemented a package of immigration reforms, known as the Global Skills Strategy, aimed at fast - tracking visas for skilled foreign workers — some can get processed in as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soil.

Foreign automakers have been attracted to southern states in part because the United Auto Workers union is particularly weak in the region, having failed to organize Tennessee autoworkers at factories in Smyrna and Chattanooga.

«Canada's media and cultural industries are being severely damaged by the tax loopholes that benefit foreign digital companies and platforms at the expense of Canadian producers and workers and that cost the federal government at least $ 1 billion in revenues,» the union wrote in a statement on its website.

And the association has been joining hands with groups like Silicon Valley Leadership Group to show members of Congress how the economies of states like California are almost entirely dependent on foreign workers, from the people who grow and produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge says

The American university system is good at training foreign workers for tech jobs, and it is essential that the U.S. government allows them to stay in the country to fulfill U.S. jobs, he said.

The temporary foreign worker program was first under fire in the fall of 2012, when it came to light that approval was granted to Chinese - owned HD Mining International to bring more than 200 people from China to work at its coal mine near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

It also took him almost six months to hire his first employee because Japanese workers tend to be «very cautious» about taking jobs at an upstart foreign firm.

At the same time, Chinese contractors that operate on an entirely new model — exporting thousands of their own low - cost workers to foreign job sites, for example — are starting to compete in the markets where Bechtel is strongest.

But at the film screening in San Francisco early August, Zuckerberg said that U.S. immigration policy extends far beyond foreign high - tech workers and an increase in H - 1B visas.

The senior official said the end result of how the system currently works is that foreign workers are often brought in at less pay to replace American workers, «violating the principle of the program.»

Our Government will complete reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to ensure that Canadians always have the first chance at available jobs.

What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.

At the same time, they have openly encouraged lawmakers to make it harder for consulting companies in India and elsewhere to provide foreign workers temporarily to this country.

According to CNN, the Trump Organization has received 1,024 H - 2B visas since 2000 for workers at such properties as Mar - a-Lago and the Trump National Golf Club in Washington, D.C., along with other types of foreign visas.

At the moment, Malaysia has 2.1 million registered foreign workers — mainly from Indonesia, Vietnam, Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh — who work in positions commonly referred to as «3D» jobs: dirty, dangerous and difficult.

Today, American aerospace companies are at a huge disadvantage because foreign airplane makers like Canada's Bombardier and Europe's Airbus are intentionally skirting international trade laws — which will only end up hurting American workers.

A draft presidential memorandum at the end of the document that could be used to order the review of NAFTA orders the report to pay «extra consideration to the effects such a policy change may have on the middle class, manufacturing and service sector workers, and foreign direct investment into the United States.»

The order weighs how to make the country's immigration program «more merit based,» calls for site visits at companies that employ foreign workers, and tasks the Department of Homeland Security with producing a report twice a year on the total number of foreign - born people — not just nonimmigrant visa holders — who are authorized to work in the United States.

Levin said Mexico's Confederation of Mexican Workers has done little to boost wages there, telling an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations that BMW signed a contract in May with a starting salary of $ 1.10 an hour, moving up to $ 2.53 an hour.

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Cheap products made in China flooding the global market are manufactured by foreign joint ventures at the sacrifice of numerous women workers.

«Some are welcome: a silly promise to put workers on company boards, for instance, was abandoned; a dreadful plan to make firms list their foreign employees lasted less than a week; and hints at curbing the Bank of England's independence were quietly forgotten.

The questions put to him from the workers range from whether the Royal Mail should be renationalised - Lewis wants to look at new models of ownership - to whether it's true he wants all foreign workers to be forced to join a union.

A Labour administration would focus on three things to help ease pressure on public services and wages including better enforcement of the minimum wage, cracking down on recruitment agencies who only supplied workers from particular countries and looking at areas and types of jobs where there were large numbers of foreign workers.

Only experimental treatments were available, and survivors, including health care workers, are at risk for persistent infections from the virus remaining in sites that can tolerate foreign substances without eliciting an inflammatory immune response, such as the eye and testes.

Though he had a newly issued H - 1B visa for foreign workers in specialty occupations, he lived in Sudan, one of the seven predominantly Muslim countries from which President Donald Trump banned visitors for at least 90 days.

The numbers of foreign - born workers in S&E increased from 14 % to 22 % from 1990 to 2000 — with increasingly higher percentages at higher degree levels, while U.S. citizens earned fewer S&E bachelor's degrees from 1985 to 2000.

Foreign aid workers said they had struggled to get equipment and personnel on to Philippine military cargo planes, with the government prioritizing the deployment of soldiers due to widespread looting at the weekend.

The need for more visas to bring in more scientists may be apparent to officials at companies or universities that employ large numbers of technical workers, or at universities that graduate large numbers of foreign students who wish to stay here.

Now, she keeps herself busy with bridge at various clubs, as well as ad hoc volunteer projects, such as organising clothes donation drives for foreign workers.

He did say at the end that low - paid workers in the US don't compete against foreign workers, which is partially true.

Some will be offended at this, but you might ask, why should we prevent companies in the US from contracting with foreign workers to do work more cheaply than in the US?

Two years later, everyone else has the same graduate degrees, you still have no experience (you have to keep your grades up at all costs, and working in a PhD lab is a full - time job in itself), competition is fiercer than ever, jobs have been outsourced (even in STEM), and you're also competing with visa - holding foreign workers in the US.

The foreign workers I've spoken about before, they don't «hit» or stare at you on you in places like malls or restaurants.

In order to bolster the economy, which has provided real improvements in life for many low skilled Chinese workers, the Chinese government has used its surplus to buy foreign sovereign debt (i.e. American treasury bills) and kept taxes set at relatively low levels.

Bush's plan comes with demands that the Big Three restructure their finances, reduce their debt by two - thirds and reduce their unionized workers» wages to more closely match those of workers at foreign - owned auto plants in the United States.

At the request of a German client, KG Legal verified a Polish employment agency addressed by a foreign entity operating in the field of employing workers from India in Poland for jobs related to steel and mining industry in one of the largest economic zones in Poland.

Employers, have you surveyed your staff recently and found you have at least one or more skilled temporary foreign workers in your workplace?

One lawyer may be an expert at family sponsorships, whereas a consultant may be more experienced with temporary foreign workers.

Before the public outcry surrounding the use of Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) at RBC quiets down, it is important to fully assess the problems with the TFW program.