Sentences with phrase «foreign workers from»

(The idea here is to protect foreign workers from abuse or exploitation.)

-- Some of the work on Edmonton's new downtown arena is being done by Temporary Foreign Workers from the U.S. despite the fact that hundreds of qualified local ironworkers are available.

Edmonton — Some of the work on Edmonton's new downtown arena is being done by Temporary Foreign Workers from the U.S. despite the fact that hundreds of qualified local ironworkers are available.

Not exact matches

In November, finance minister Bill Morneau announced upcoming changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers program, which will simplify and speed up the hiring process for high - growth (mainly tech) companies recruiting from abroad.

Duncan notes that foreign workers both start far more businesses than Americans, and that they're needed to avoid potentially crippling labor shortages in industries from farming to construction to tech.

«We have seen throughout history how efforts to shield industries and workers from foreign competition have been counterproductive.»

From doggie spas to oil companies, employers have been given the green light to hire temporary foreign workers even in regions of the country struggling with joblessness, including the Maritimes and southwestern Ontario, and in sectors where there is no apparent lack of domestic candidates.

When Canada first launched the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in 1973, it was designed to allow companies to hire skilled professionals, like engineers, from outside the country when their expertise couldn't be found in the domestic market.

That's a long way of saying the Conservative government could have seen the current temporary foreign worker scandal coming from five decades away.

The temporary foreign worker program has ballooned under the Conservatives from about 100,000 people in 2002 to as many as 338,000 now working across the country.

Among those options was the implementation of a so - called wage floor that would prevent companies from paying foreign workers beneath a set wage level still to be determined.

Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico's most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $ 1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.

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

Many foreign workers» families are reluctant to stay in Venezuela for long periods, one executive from a company operating in the Orinoco Belt told Reuters.

A consistent shortage of these temporary work visas prevents U.S. tech companies from hiring the foreign - born scientific and engineering workers they need.

«Foreign workers applying to jobs are much more nervous about the process, and even our existing H - 1B workers are worried that they will be kicked out of the country,» she adds, noting that one employee is considering working from Europe as opposed to the U.S. — a move Phone2Action would support.

The Royal Bank of Canada has had a tough couple of months, most recently reeling from an out - of - nowhere scandal involving the use of foreign workers to replace some of its Canadian IT staff.

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'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.

When the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance dutifully looked into youth unemployment last summer, it heard familiar tales of outrage and woe from university student groups and organized labour fretting about student debt, precarious work and temporary foreign workers.

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.

In all cases, the foreign workers were «rented» from Indian outsourcing firms such as Infosys.

It came under criticism last year from Breitbart News — the alt - right media outlet of presidential adviser Steve Bannon — for announcing a layoff of 12,000 U.S. - based workers, even as it was requesting H - 1B visas to bring in foreign professionals.

Our government will need to use tariffs to prevent these same foreign (both private and government owned) corporations, who have workers that are forced to work in sweat shops for anything they can get, from dumping (exporting) low cost copies of our Brand named products back into this country.

The annual quota includes 65,000 visas for foreign workers applying for the first time, while the remaining 20,000 are for foreign students graduating with advanced degrees from American universities.

Important changes to Canadian citizenship and immigration policy have broken into the headlines of late, from the introduction of the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act to serious abuses of the controversial temporary foreign worker program to refugee determination concerns.

There is no guarantee that the construction workers will be from BC (or even Canada, considering the temporary foreign workers scandals) or that the company will buy materials here.

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.

Yesterday, it produced several letters from NDP MPs advocating on behalf of constituents who wanted to hire foreign workers.

The decision to suspend the food services industry from the Temporary Foreign Worker program will hurt businesses and their employees, says the restaurant industry association, an outcome the minister responsible for the move called «regrettable, but necessary.»

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.

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The process of bringing in a foreign worker can range from a couple months to about a year.

The provincial government announced earlier this month it was adopting a series of recommendations from the premier's LNG working group study, including the adoption of a foreign workers strategy and a workforce planning coalition.

Unfortunately we have heard from our churches in the northeast provinces complaining that in the past couple of years many conservative south Korean Christian workers, often with a large amount of foreign currency, have been trying to apply their church - development methods to the churches in Manchuria.

This sentiment did not exclude awareness of real problems, one of which is the condition and status of large numbers of foreign workers (half of them illegal) from Indonesia, the Philippines and India.

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.

Businesses will no longer be able to use immigration to avoid hiring from our current (and substantially foreign - born) population of low - skill workers.

If (when the economy improves even more) the construction and hospitality industries have trouble getting labor, they can hire from our current population (both the native and the foreign - born) rather than bring in guest workers.

The dislike of the foreign worker — Jews in the 1930s for Oswald Mosley, Asians in the 1960s for Enoch Powell, Poles since 2004 for Migration Watch — is a pathology right - wing British politics can never free itself from.

From disclosing how many foreign workers firms employ to installing consumers as boardroom directors, the Tory plans have seen a mixed response

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.

They include Leavers and Remainers, employers and workers, foreign and British students, EU migrants and those from beyond the UK, and British citizens.

The offer is part of a wider productivity plan, which would also require large firms hiring skilled workers from outside the EU to create 100,000 apprenticeships over the parliament, a move that would inevitably increase the cost of hiring foreign workers.

Low - paid foreign workers and asylum seekers from Europe and «safe» nations will be stopped from entering Britain, Robert Kilroy - Silk's Veritas party pledged yesterday.

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.

But many American scientists and technical professionals blame the H - 1B visa for allowing temporary foreign workers to drive down wages and displace them from jobs.

He quoted statistics from the American Enterprise Institute claiming that that each foreign worker who receives a U.S. STEM education creates on average 2.6 jobs, and that foreign - born professionals are 30 % more likely to start a business in the United States than are native - born professionals.

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.