Sentences with phrase «is the temporary foreign»

But Joyce Reynolds, executive vice-president of government affairs for the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, says just 26,000 (or 2.4 %) of her industry's 1.1 million workers nationwide are temporary foreign workers — most of them found in small communities in Western Canada.

If you are a temporary foreign worker or a foreign student, and have skilled work experience in Canada, you may be able to move from temporary to permanent residence under the Canadian Experience Class.

Temporary foreign workers are temporary foreign workers.

Therefore, Employment Insurance benefits can not be paid to people who are not here actively seeking employment, because they are temporary foreign workers and they obviously are not here on a permanent basis.

Not exact matches

In reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workers.

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.

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.

This tripling of the itinerant workforce resulted in unemployment being 3.9 percentage points higher in Alberta and British Columbia, where the use of temporary foreign workers is prevalent, according to a recent study by Simon Fraser University professor Dominique Gross.

The temporary foreign workers issue is just another example of why Canada needs to keep better labour market data.

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

But they also point out it could inflict further headaches on Employment Minister Jason Kenney if the set salary level is higher than the minimum wage, meaning temporary foreign workers would stand to make better money than Canadians.

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

The process for bringing temporary foreign workers into the U.S. legally is complex, and due to administrative delays the help often doesn't come soon enough.

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.

The program stoked public anger when some Royal Bank of Canada employees complained their IT jobs were being handed to temporary foreign workers.

«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.

I have in front of me the report on labour market opinions issued for temporary foreign workers in the Windsor area, and the overwhelming majority of these LMOs were issued for industrial instrument technicians and mechanics for less than six months.

Foreign students with temporary visas enrolling in those same programs is down 13 percent.

The B.C. Federation of Labour said there's been a dramatic increase in the number of temporary foreign workers filling entry - level jobs in recent years in the westernmost province.

Schultz has found the most effective method of importing labour is to bring foreign workers in on temporary work permits and then use the provincial nominee program to convert them to permanent residents.

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.

The plurality of Canadians who do not reject the idea in general say temporary foreign workers should only be allowed if the required skills are not available in Canada (31 %), followed by those who want to be sure no Canadian jobs are displaced (21 %) or those who accept temporary foreign workers for jobs Canadians refuse (18 %).

The other big announcement was Employment Minister Jason Kenney's decision to place a moratorium on new approvals for restaurants to hire temporary foreign workers, in response to a myriad of complaints about abuses under the federal program.

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.

Two thirds of Canadians do not agree with the current law where employers are allowed to pay temporary foreign workers less for equivalents skills and duties (66 %), and just more than a quarter agree (28 %).

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

There is an even split in opinion between those who agree temporary foreign workers should seek citizenship (45 %) and those who disagree (46 %).

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 %).

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.

Dear Colleagues, Over the last 24 hours there has been Canadian media coverage alleging that RBC has hired temporary foreign workers to replace RBC employees.

Companies that provide temporary foreign workers say the move is intended to push them out of the American market.

The Canadian Experience Class (CEC) is an immigration program for certain temporary foreign workers and foreign student graduates with professional, managerial and skilled work experience.

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.

It's only been a couple of weeks since Disney, that most iconic of American companies, moved to displace all its home grown techies with low - cost foreign temporary workers.

Indeed, James Moore was so eager to pronounce this hypocrisy — apparently related to the temporary foreign workers program — that the Heritage Minister did not even wait for Mr. Trudeau to ask a question this afternoon before doing so.

According to office of Jason Kenney, these letters merely «underscore the fact that both the NDP and the Liberals are being hypocritical and lack transparency on the matter of temporary foreign workers.»

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 foreign worker program are being charged $ 12,500 illegally to gain entrance to Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Foreign Worker Progam.

They are examples of how global outsourcing companies are using temporary visas to bring in foreign workers who do not appear to have exceptional skills — according to interviews with a dozen current or former employees of Toys «R» Us and New York Life — to help ship out jobs, mainly to India.

«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.

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.

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.

Premier Christy Clark promised 100,000 LNG jobs, but now she is trying to arrange for the industry to bring more temporary foreign workers into the province.

«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.

If entry level positions for apprentices are going to temporary foreign workers, B.C. workers can't get trained.»

VANCOUVER — B.C. workers must be first in line for construction jobs and apprenticeship opportunities, but the Christy Clark government does not track temporary foreign workers in our economy, says B.C. New Democrat leader John Horgan.

FACT: Sigurdson also told CBC Radio on July 13, 2015 «There's very little in the way of language for training opportunities for British Columbians, and I fear that we could have more temporary foreign workers on the project than what are required.»

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberals» focus on opening the door for temporary foreign workers and ignoring British Columbians who are hoping for LNG jobs has the premier's lead LNG proponent planning to fill up to 70 per cent of its...

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.

The right to hire temporary foreign workers for 15 % less than the going wage has been abolished, but there are other ways of squeezing those workers.

Soon after the announcement and before the tariffs took effect, Trump offered temporary exemptions to several trading partners to «encourage» them to play nice: buy more U.S. stuff; sell Americans less foreign stuff; increase NATO spending (EU countries); agree to U.S. terms on various aspects of the NAFTA renegotiations (Canada, Mexico); agree to export quotas (South Korea) and the temporary exemptions will be made permanent.