Sentences with phrase «foreign workers through»

The Trump administration has also taken steps to make it harder for American companies to hire skilled foreign workers through the H - 1B visa program.

Not exact matches

The Democratic candidate for president also attacked the company for last year laying off 250 technology workers after requiring some of them to train their replacements: foreign employees hired on temporary H - 1B visas for highly skilled technical workers through an Indian outsourcing firm.

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.

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.

More than half of the 243 employers in the province permitted to hire temporary foreign workers at minimum wage over a 10 - month period ended in June were in the food - service business, the Alberta Federation of Labour found recently through a freedom - of - information request.

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

His attempt to follow through on that promise was the March 8 tariff increase on foreign steel and aluminum, arguing that the tariffs were necessary to protect U.S. industries and workers.

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.

Last month, the feds even opened special immigration offices in Calgary and Vancouver to help employers cut through the red - tape in hiring temporary foreign workers.

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.

11:43 - Brown is attacked on foreign workers - specifically the posted workers initiative, which (through a couple of later court cases) allows foreign to come over while being paid wages of their home country.

He speaks with embedded evangelists, aid workers, local community leaders and even a bomb diffuser (to name just a few of the subjects) and through it all, the same general notion is reinforced: Sudan is falling apart, the walls are closing in and the ideal of self - sufficiency is being replaced by institutions of foreign interest.

He says the «accumulative duration rule» which indicates most temporary foreign workers — not all, but most — that come through labour market opinions have a maximum of four years in Canada.

Domestic workers include people with and without regularized immigration status and migrant workers employed through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

Through the new Global Talent Stream of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the government claims that companies will have access to a streamlined process which aims to process eligible applications within 10 business days.

These employers will not be able or willing to wait the time necessary to go through the express - entry process for the sole purpose of bringing in a foreign worker when the benefit of the temporary foreign worker program is still available.

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.

This stream includes the Seasonal Agricultural Worker (SAW) stream through which employers can secure temporary foreign labour from Mexico and various Caribbean countries covered under bilateral international agreements.

The documents, obtained by the Alberta Federation of Labour through federal access to information requests, show thousands of Alberta - based businesses have been disproportionately relying on Temporary Foreign Workers — many with workforces that are more than 50 per cent TFWs.

It would do this through an increase in the number of immigrants that Ontario can select under the Provincial Nominee Program from the current 2,500 to 5,000 per year with a focus on economic class immigrants rather than workers that continue to build the province through temporary foreign workers programs (construction, caregiving, farming, hospitality services etc).

Pursuant to s. 45.2 (1).3 of the Code, the corporate respondent was also ordered to provide any workers hired through the temporary foreign workers program with human rights training in their native language for the next three years.

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 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 Foreign Worker Program is designed to be temporary in nature.

The spouses and children of temporary foreign workers can seek dependent non-immigrant status in the U.S. through the U.S. consulate in their country (if they are outside the US) or through the government (if they are temporarily inside the US) on a visa.

If you are a student studying in the U.S. or a foreign worker, you will have to get health insurance in the U.S. either through the university or through your employer.

The number of hoops companies have to jump through to bring foreign workers into the US is only growing under the Trump administration.

Some of the Social Workers are also parents through international adoption and / or have traveled to foreign countries to support clients.