Sentences with phrase «foreign workers by»

• Conduct inspections on - site without a warrant and interview Canadian employees and foreign workers by consent.

The objectives of the regulatory changes are to reduce the potential for exploitation of temporary foreign workers by employers and third - party agents, implement stricter employer accountability mechanisms in order to encourage greater adherence by employers to the stated terms and conditions of offered jobs, and highlight that employment facilitated through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is designed to be temporary in nature.

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The use of incorrect statistics and skewed economic arguments to demand the exclusion of Temporary Foreign Workers by people all along the political spectrumhearkens to a lengthy history of exclusion of immigrants from Canada.

The purpose of the relevant part of the federal Immigration and Refugee Protection Act is to protect immigrants and temporary foreign workers by regulating who can charge them fees for immigration services.

Not exact matches

The federal government plans to establish a scheme to simplify the process by which hospitality and tourism operators employ foreign workers.

Unpaid internships depress wages by creating a pool of workers willing to work for free — and for no benefits, making them akin to the labourers brought to Canada under the much - maligned temporary foreign worker program.

Nor can the nation's school systems account for foreign - educated adult immigrants, the dated skills of older workers and the changing needs of workplaces, which are often driven by technological change.

By that time, one worker in three may be foreign born, and many others will be 55 years or older.

In reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workers.

This tripling of the itinerant workforce resulted in unemployment being 3.9 percentage points higher in Alberta and British Columbia, where the use of temporary foreign workers is prevalent, according to a recent study by Simon Fraser University professor Dominique Gross.

To hire a temporary foreign worker, employers must pay the «prevailing wage» for the position, an amount determined by postings on the Job Bank.

British Columbia's wooing of foreign tech workers turned away by the U.S. is nothing new.

U.S. - born computer science employees are hurt by the influx of foreign workers in the field, but for the American computer scientists who make up 1.7 % of the workforce, wages were depressed by just 1.5 % in 2010, according to Khanna.

The study estimates that U.S. workers across all sectors on average were better off by about $ 431 million in 2010 when you take into account the increased productivity and innovation within the tech sector due to foreign workers.

An exit could pose hiring challenges by making it harder for foreign workers to secure British work visas.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), daily output there has already dropped by more than 50 %, primarily because foreign oil workers are fleeing for their lives.

«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.

In a vote today, the U.S. Senate passed a historic immigration reform bill whose provisions include a visa for foreign - born startup founders and an increase in the number of visas available to highly skilled workers employed by technology companies.

Legislators have announced efforts to improve the visa process and retain more highly skilled, foreign - born workers, but perhaps unsurprisingly considering the general lack of productivity in the current congress, these efforts have been largely ignored by lawmakers.

What's more, two regulatory changes are approaching that would reverse measures made by Obama to ease the application process for high - skilled foreign workers.

Said Rep. Ed Royce, R - Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: «I am very concerned by reports of deep cuts that could damage efforts to combat terrorism, save lives, and create opportunities for American workers.»

Prized by the business lobby, loathed by unionized labour, the temporary foreign worker program is either a solution to or an exacerbation of a problem that may or may not exist.

The sorts of jobs that Cha's father had before starting his own business — dishwashing and building maintenance — are now filled almost entirely by foreign - born workers.

In response to a question posed by Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland on temporary foreign workers, Jason Kenney, the Minister of Employment and Social Development gave the following response:

The consequences could come in myriad forms, not only by limiting staffing efforts, but because those foreign workers would, by necessity, go to the competition in other countries.

Last April, facing a Federal Court lawsuit launched by unions over the HD Mining workers, the federal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing Canadian wage.

The plurality of Canadians who do not reject the idea in general say temporary foreign workers should only be allowed if the required skills are not available in Canada (31 %), followed by those who want to be sure no Canadian jobs are displaced (21 %) or those who accept temporary foreign workers for jobs Canadians refuse (18 %).

It's not perfect, but the open letter to Canadians from RBC president and CEO Gord Nixon does hit a lot of the right notes to help stem the swell of ill will, sparked by a CBC report over the weekend claiming the company was swapping Canadian staff for cheaper temporary foreign workers.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

By 2001, more than 21 % of workers in the sector were foreign - born.

Research by the Economic Policy Institute suggests that there may be less of a shortage of STEM workers than assumed by the bill's proponents, and loopholes in the bill will allow unscrupulous companies to use H - 1B visas to fill jobs with cheaper foreign workers when U.S. workers would do.

Americans were stunned last year by news that Disney Corp. had laid off dozens of its American IT staff, and replaced them with foreign workers on the H - 1B work visa.

That's because the tech industry was founded by immigrants — Elon Musk, Satya Nadella and Sergey Brin are just a few prominent foreign - born CEOs — and it relies heavily on foreign workers, particularly those on H - 1B visas.

Yet another was created by selling shares to foreign investors, so that any attempt to denationalize would have to confront not only British financial institutions and worker - shareholders, but American and other global diplomatic pressure.

A federal judge in Florida dealt a blow on Thursday to legal claims by American technology workers who were laid off by the Walt Disney Company and forced to train foreign replacements, dismissing lawsuits by two workers who said Disney had conspired with outsourcing companies to violate visa laws.

«Business Roundtable strongly disagrees with today's announcement because it will hurt the U.S. economy and American companies, workers and consumers by raising prices and resulting in foreign retaliation against U.S. exporters,» Joshua Bolten, president of the influential Business Roundtable, said in a statement.

The main function of those foreign workers is to expand foreign sales rather than to cut costs by replacing U.S. jobs, but some of the output produced abroad is in the form of intermediate goods that are imported into the U.S. and show up as part of our «final output.»

The suit alleged that the fired employees, all of whom were U.S. citizens or green card holders, were fired as a cost - cutting measure so they could be replaced by cheaper, less - experienced foreign workers, according to the Boston Globe.

Instead, Christy Clark's Liberals are capping two decades of undermining skills training in B.C. by taking a defeatist attitude that says we will have to rely heavily on foreign workers to build LNG.

The report points to shameful episodes involving exploited foreign workers on the Canada Line, Golden Ears Bridge, and by HD Mining.

They also examine how the rights and privileges of farm workers, including seasonal and temporary foreign workers, conflict with those of their employers, and reveal the barriers many face by being excluded from most statutory employment laws, sometimes in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

By December 2014, the number of temporary foreign workers in B.C. increased to 84,000.

Pepito and his girlfriend, Heidi Kibanoff were hired in 2009 under Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFW) by Pierre Pelletier, owner of the Fernie Tim Hortons franchise.

By hiring a foreign worker, you will strengthen your enterprise with the addition of qualified, dedicated employees who will help your company move forward.

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

Some of our foreign workers can end up living in squalor, five or six men and women sharing a room, exploited by their landlords, exploited by employers.

In addition, humane societies seek to cushion workers who lose their jobs due to recessions, foreign competition and technological change by offering them short - term unemployment benefits and financial assistance for re - training and relocating.

Temporary hardships caused in certain industries by competition from foreign producers should be alleviated by direct economic assistance and by helping in plant modernization or the retraining and reallocation of displaced workers, and not by the imposition of import duties which prevent able and industrious people from reaping the rewards of their efforts.

It could mean focusing on how reductions to future low - skill immigration also benefits our current population of foreign - born workers by restraining labor market competition in a sector of the economy where unemployment is high and wages have been stagnant.