Sentences with phrase «foreign workers as»

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.

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

Byrne singled out child - related benefits for foreign workers as something that Labour would seek to cut, explaining that «we just don't think it's fair that someone could move to London and leave their children in Paris or Prague, claim for family benefits and then send them home».

However, anti-immigration stances are rooted in arguments that identify foreign workers as increasingly contributing to local crime.

The federal government announced initial changes in April, scrapping an aspect of the program that allowed employers to pay foreign workers as much as 15 per cent less than the average wage for a job.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Additionally, most tech companies rely on foreign workers to fill large swaths of their technical roles, as the U.S. does not currently produce enough domestic talent to match demand.

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.

«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.

«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 co-founder and CEO of the civic technology service Phone2Action relies on a visa program for specialized foreign workers, known as the H - 1B.

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 %).

H - 1B visas allow companies to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialized occupations, which was a practice that was of particular use to tech companies as the digital boom began to take off.

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

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.

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.

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.

Immigration Minister John McCallum said he intends to launch federal - provincial talks to reform the current Express Entry program, a computerized system that serves as a matchmaking service between employers and foreign skilled workers.

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.

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.

Malmström described the Trump administration's plan to impose tariffs of 25 % on foreign steel and 10 % on imported aluminum as «deeply unjust» and a threat to European workers.

As for other industries, I've observed before that infrastructure projects on the scale of those being discussed would actually have to be implemented with foreign labor (as many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor forcAs for other industries, I've observed before that infrastructure projects on the scale of those being discussed would actually have to be implemented with foreign labor (as many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor forcas many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor force.

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.»

«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.

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.

Moreover, the large pay increases awarded to many Chinese workers in foreign - owned plants — such as the 30 % award to the 300,000 workers in the Foxconn International Holdings (PINK ADR: FXCNY) plant — must inevitably push up both Chinese purchasing power and Chinese inflation.

OECD provides an estimate as to how many workers are employed in jobs that depend on foreign demand (i.e. exports).

Mr. McGowan is known as an outspoken advocate for labour issues and critic of the Temporary Foreign Workers program.

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).

As a result, some foreign steel and aluminum firms will go bankrupt; others will be forced to lay off workers.

Japan is a recipient country of migrant workers but most Filipino women migrate to Japan as entertainers, because the Japanese government sticks to the policy refusing to accept any unskilled foreign labor.

SAP creates more unemployment through the process of privatization, retrenchment of workers, the closing of local industries due to import liberalization, the displacement of small farmers due to foreign subsidized imports and cut in agricultural subsidies such as for fertilizers and water and reduction of marketing facilities.

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].

Until recently, employers were not forced to act as law enforcement personnel because the hiring of workers» whether native or foreign - born» was rightly regarded as an aspect of the employer's legitimate freedom of contract.

A little later, Lord Shaftesbury (1801 - 85), another outstanding evangelical, concentrated on efforts to improve the conditions of industrial workers, as well as being for many years president of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

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

As of the year 2014, there are 375,000 registered legal skilled workers (permanent residents) or foreign workers / students (i.e. Ghana Card holders) inhabitants with an annually 1.5 million transited airport layovers.

As part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as CroatiAs part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as Croatias Croatia.

I thought it was ok to pay foreign workers below the National Minimum Wage as they aren't British and therefore don't have the right to be paid it.

All foreign workers or students coming to the country will soon require a domestic sponsor, as a part of a new initiative designed to manage migration into the UK.

«Theresa May's speech comes as the Tories signal they are poised to target foreign workers in the most disgraceful display of reactionary rightwing politics in living memory.

This was also the time when far - leftists started to court social and ethnic minorities, such as gays, feminists, environmentalists and the growing population of foreign «guest workers».

Trump's vineyard is looking to hire foreign workers to start just days after he's sworn in as president.

But the Labour leader also faced fresh questions about his approach to immigration as a Labour discussion document indicated the party could open up routes for unskilled foreign workers to come to the UK.

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.