Sentences with phrase «foreign worker»

Yes, the Tories made a big mistake with Amber Rudd's announcement about foreign worker lists.

In return, the government indefinitely suspended its levy of the controversial BD 10 (USD 27) monthly fee imposed on business owners for every foreign worker they employ.

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.

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

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

When the story hit the press, then Human Resources and Social Development Minister Diane Finley ran for cover, blamed her officials, and put the whole temporary foreign worker program under review.

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).

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.

«When we go back in session, I will be pressing the provincial government (about the Temporary Foreign Worker Program),» said Elmore.

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is back in the news — sort of.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Toronto: PEI, Nova Scotia Join Alberta in Opposing Changes to Foreign Worker Program

«While BC needs a leader committed to jobs and training, particularly for young people, the Premier's focus has been on temporary foreign worker agreements with the federal government, China and India.

In most cases, the first step is for your employer to obtain formal permission through the local Provincial Nominee Program («PNP») or federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program («TFWP») processes to continue hiring you after the expiry of your current work permit.

Having promised industry these lower - paid temporary workers, the premier is now trying to claim that the Temporary Foreign Worker program is in fact an immigration program, when she knows full well it isn't.

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.»

In attempting to shoo away questions about the temporary foreign worker program, the Immigration Minister's office has apparently been going through its correspondence file.

OCTOBER 18, 2012: Jeremy J. Nuttall breaks story on Tyee that Chinese miners in Canada's temporary foreign worker program are being charged $ 12,500 illegally to gain entrance to Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Progam.

Meanwhile, on the productivity front, U.S. parent companies with foreign affiliates currently employ more than one foreign worker for every two U.S. workers.

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.

If you, as a Canadian employer, have already found a foreign worker to fill an opening your company, we can take care of the process for you to ensure that you meet all government regulations.

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.

Federal officials allow only one application for each foreign worker.

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

Such employers are required to recruit U.S. citizens or permanent residents before resorting to hiring a foreign worker.

«A significant number of employers are using the Temporary Foreign Worker Program as a tool to suppress wages,» AFL president Gil McGowan charges.

The wide majority agree some Canadian firms take advantage of the temporary foreign worker program to reduce labour costs (70 %).

The Lac Megantic disaster last year and the series of revelations about the Temporary Foreign Worker Program are testament to that.

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.

«Let me be clear: the Temporary Foreign Worker program must always and only ever be a last and limited resort for employers who have made every possible effort to hire and train Canadians but can't find them for available jobs,» Kenney said.

«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.

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.

Meanwhile, over 200 tech investors and entrepreneurs are planning to send Trump a letter today that looks past the ban, calling the order and a likely forthcoming crackdown on foreign worker visas «morally and economically misguided,» adding it will «inflict irreversible harm on the startup community and America's ability to compete globally.»

There are concerns that in some cases companies have little incentive to do so when they can access inexpensive labour through the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program, which has expanded dramatically over the past few years.

A common defence of Canada's ballooning temporary foreign worker program is that it's needed in areas with severe labour shortages.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

OTTAWA — Ottawa is considering a further crackdown on its embattled temporary foreign worker program that could result in higher fees for companies hoping to hire foreign help and an elimination of the practice altogether in areas of high unemployment, The Canadian Press has learned.

Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program problems could have been predicted.

«Comparing Canada with other G7 countries raises more questions about the massive expansion of our temporary foreign worker program.»

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.

For that purpose, in the future you might want to have that foreign worker fill out, sign and return to you Form W - 8BEN.

Tech companies say they need the visas to get scarce talent, while labor advocates contend that it allows companies to hire cheaper foreign workers instead of Americans.

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

The H - 1B program, which allows US companies to bring in foreign workers in specialized fields like math, science and engineering, has long been a magnet for controversy.

To support growth, what's needed is earlier educational opportunities for young engineers, starting in junior high school, Goldstein says, as well as increases to the H1 - B visa caps, for qualified foreign workers.

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.