Sentences with phrase «as temporary foreign workers»

These include migrants who immigrate or seek to continue to reside in Canada under the humanitarian stream (mainly refugee and humanitarian & compassionate (H&C) claimants); certain sponsored family members who immigrate to Canada under the family reunification stream of immigration; and certain migrants who enter Canada under the economic stream of migration, in particular, those who enter as temporary foreign workers (TFW).

Bringing other provinces on board with pipeline expansion, plus a variety of other controversial issues such as temporary foreign workers, requires a national perspective on economic growth.

Credit unions are another option, especially if they are associated with your school (as an international student) or place of employment (as a temporary foreign worker).

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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.

«It looks like the temporary foreign worker program in many cases is serving as an escape valve for many employers,» who resort to imported labour rather than raise wages to attract Canadian candidates, he says.

More than 8 - in - 10 Canadians agree temporary foreign workers should be proficient in either French or English before being allowed to work here (82 %), and as many as two thirds agree strongly (64 %).

In a terse decision, Judge Gregory A. Presnell of the United States District Court in Orlando rejected the former workers» arguments that Disney and the two contractors had colluded to make false statements when they applied for temporary visas, known as H - 1B, for the foreign replacements.

«It's certainly very hypocritical for the Conservative government to say that a member of parliament that advocates on behalf of a business in his or her constituency who advocates in favour of temporary foreign workers who meet the criteria as set out in the program, if somehow that's illegitimate for a member of parliament to advocate for a temporary foreign worker permit in his constituency,» Mr. LeBlanc explained, «then the Conservatives should ask themselves why under their watch the number of temporary foreign workers has doubled.

Saudi Arabia allows Roman Catholics and Christians of other denominations to enter the country as foreign workers for temporary work, but does not allow them to practise their faith openly, and as a result Roman Catholics and Christians of other denominations generally only worship in secret within private homes [2].

Complete statistics are not collected on how many temporary foreign scientific and technical workers are in the country, where they work, and whether they leave the country when their visas expire or, as critics suggest, move into the illegal immigrant pool.

(For the purposes of this story, «guest workers» means foreign workers in the United States who have temporary employment - based visas, such as the H - 1B visa for «specialty occupations».)

Last year, Canada welcomed more than half a million newcomers to our country as immigrants, international students and temporary foreign workers.

Commentators have identified temporary foreign workers as a potential focus of the reincarnated Commission's attention.

Read their article Employers face more inspections and new penalties under the new temporary foreign worker regime, as published in the Chronicle Herald's Cream on January 22, 2016.

Rekai says often temporary foreign workers are individuals who provide high - level technical services for infrastructure projects such as mines, hydro electric projects, and hospitals perhaps for two or three weeks to service a contract.

Nonetheless, it is noteworthy that the HRTO reached these conclusions, especially as controversy surrounding the recently - imposed moratorium on temporary foreign workers in the food industry continues to grow.

These findings are not news to migrant workers and their allies, who have been contending for years that the SAWP and other temporary foreign work programs are structured in such a way as to produce exploitative working conditions.

By having stronger attestations, it gives the government much more authority to invoke the penalties it has, such as barring the Canadian company from bringing in a temporary foreign worker for two years.

Our consultants focus primarily on permanent residency under the skilled worker streams, provincial nominee programs, and family class, as well as temporary work permits for foreign businesses doing work in Canada or Canadian companies hiring from overseas.

Plan as far in advance as possible when hiring temporary foreign workers.

The headline is tongue - in - cheek because really, the first step towards «fixing» immigration is to realize the immigration program as a whole, and even our temporary foreign worker program, in part, are not necessarily broken.

The temporary foreign worker program just went through a major overhaul geared towards «putting Canadians first» and ensuring Canadians are given the first choice of jobs in Canada and to prevent employers exploiting foreign workers or using foreign workers as a cheaper labour source.

A person in Canada temporarily, such as an international student, or a temporary foreign worker, is not a permanent resident.

The Government of Canada, under Economic Action Plan 2013, has announced a number of changes in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program as follows: Effective immediately, all employers who hire temporary foreign workers are required to pay them at the prevailinForeign Worker Program as follows: Effective immediately, all employers who hire temporary foreign workers are required to pay them at the prevailinforeign workers are required to pay them at the prevailing wage.

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As Canada's population of newcomers continues to increase (including immigrants, temporary foreign workers, and even undocumented workers), language barriers must be addressed in order to ensure access to justice.

Nine B.C. companies were fined as part of a recent government crackdown on employers misusing the temporary foreign worker program.

«If you buy a business that has temporary foreign workers, you as a purchaser — or if merging with another company — have to make sure the vendor has been compliant all along because it will now flow to you.

Further, foreign visitors on short - term visas as tourists, i.e., not students or temporary foreign workers, do not have access to buy their own health insurance from the healthcare marketplaces.