Sentences with phrase «of skilled foreign workers»

During the 18th century the British had been extremely successful in attracting a steady flow of skilled foreign workers and they wanted to keep these skills within the British Isles.

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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.

Nor can the nation's school systems account for foreign - educated adult immigrants, the dated skills of older workers and the changing needs of workplaces, which are often driven by technological change.

Instead of welcoming foreign talent with open arms, Canada makes it exceedingly difficult for them to come to or stay in this country, even at a time when the thriving technology sector is in dire need of skilled knowledge workers.

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.

The Trump administration's rigid stance on immigration policy — in particular its tightening of restrictions around H - 1B visas for skilled foreign workers — has created a unique opportunity for countries to lure away top technology talent that would otherwise seek employment in Silicon Valley or elsewhere in the U.S..

In a vote today, the U.S. Senate passed a historic immigration reform bill whose provisions include a visa for foreign - born startup founders and an increase in the number of visas available to highly skilled workers employed by technology companies.

Legislators have announced efforts to improve the visa process and retain more highly skilled, foreign - born workers, but perhaps unsurprisingly considering the general lack of productivity in the current congress, these efforts have been largely ignored by lawmakers.

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 %).

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 %).

All this flies in the face of U.S. firms» claim that they hire foreign workers to obtain «the best and the brightest,» or to obtain workers with rare skill sets.

The Global Talent Stream is now available to employers in the province of Quebec, allowing them to hire certain skilled foreign workers quickly with a two - week processing time standard for applications.

Our particular areas of focus in our Immigration Practice Group include: H - 1B (Temporary Foreign Workers), L - 1A / L - 1B (Intracompany Transferee Executives or Managers; Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge Professionals), E-2 (Treaty Investor), EB - 1 & O - 1 (Extraordinary Ability in Athletics, Arts, Sciences, etc.), EB - 1 (Multinational Managers & Executives), EB - 2 (Advanced Degree), EB - 3 (Skilled Workers, Professionals, Unskilled Workers), EB - 5 (Immigrant Investor), TN (NAFTA Professionals), J - 1 (Exchange Visitors) visa categories, and Labor Certification (PERM applications).

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.

On Friday, Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner gave notice of motion to have Kenney and «workers who have lost their jobs» to temporary foreign workers appear before the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities to address problems with the foreign workers program.

Instead, Christy Clark's Liberals are capping two decades of undermining skills training in B.C. by taking a defeatist attitude that says we will have to rely heavily on foreign workers to build LNG.

Over 200,000 foreign workers entered Canada last year, with foreigners filling a variety of skilled, semi and unskilled job positions.

But there is less dispute that future low - skill immigration reduces the wages of current low - skill foreign - born workers.

Other economists argue that future low - skill immigration primarily reduces the wages of current foreign - born workers.

Businesses will no longer be able to use immigration to avoid hiring from our current (and substantially foreign - born) population of low - skill workers.

It could mean focusing on how reductions to future low - skill immigration also benefits our current population of foreign - born workers by restraining labor market competition in a sector of the economy where unemployment is high and wages have been stagnant.

The Australian Meat Industry Council and the Meat Industry Employees» Union have accused the government of subsiding foreign workers who compete directly with Australian meatworkers for jobs with its five - year commitment to an initiative, Managing Abattoir, Training and Exchange of Skills, or MATES.

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.

The first stage of the new points - based immigration came into force today, designed to ensure only foreign workers with the skills needed by the UK are allowed entry.

The offer is part of a wider productivity plan, which would also require large firms hiring skilled workers from outside the EU to create 100,000 apprenticeships over the parliament, a move that would inevitably increase the cost of hiring foreign workers.

He says he also put his foot down about the small number of very highly skilled foreign workers that some businesses need.

The committee assembled a panel of expert witnesses — tech entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa of San Francisco, California; demographics researcher Michael Teitelbaum of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City; and Puneet Arora of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is vice-president of the nonprofit organization Immigration Voice — to discuss so - called high - skill immigration, green cards, the H - 1B visa program, and other foreign - worker visa programs affecting science and technical work.

Otto is one of the tens of thousands of foreign scientific and technical workers in the United States on H - 1B visas, which admit nonimmigrant skilled workers for a limited number of years.

Guest workers don't get those levels of skills coming from a foreign university.

As the nation debates immigration reform, companies and universities that employ foreign scientific and technical personnel are arguing that the answer is yes, and that Congress should significantly increase the number of H - 1B visas, which admit skilled workers to the United States for a limited number of years.

The short version is that «the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that «Made in the U.S.A.» is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.»

It has been revealed that the Octavia Waight Center is to gain some foreign support in 2014, with a number of British care workers and nurses flying out to Belize to offer their skills and -LSB-...]

Our particular areas of focus in our Immigration Practice Group include: H - 1B (Temporary Foreign Workers), L - 1A / L - 1B (Intracompany Transferee Executives or Managers; Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge Professionals), E-2 (Treaty Investor), EB - 1 & O - 1 (Extraordinary Ability in Athletics, Arts, Sciences, etc.), EB - 1 (Multinational Managers & Executives), EB - 2 (Advanced Degree), EB - 3 (Skilled Workers, Professionals, Unskilled Workers), EB - 5 (Immigrant Investor), TN (NAFTA Professionals), J - 1 (Exchange Visitors) visa categories, and Labor Certification (PERM applications).

On June 12, 2017, the Temporary Foreign Worker Program will be launching a new pilot program called the Global Talent Stream (the «GTS») which will establish easier and faster processing of visa and work permit applications for certain foreign nationals with unique global talent and / or who are highly sForeign Worker Program will be launching a new pilot program called the Global Talent Stream (the «GTS») which will establish easier and faster processing of visa and work permit applications for certain foreign nationals with unique global talent and / or who are highly sforeign nationals with unique global talent and / or who are highly skilled.

There is no single right answer, but what we can be sure of is that business will still need access to foreign workers to deal with skills and labour shortages.

This online resource from the Alberta Department of Jobs, Skills, Labour and Training provides information for Alberta employers on the process of hiring foreign workers.

More work needs to be done, but as of January 15, 2018, the following changes are in effect for all workers in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and the agricultural stream of the low - skilled Temporary Foreign Workers Program workers in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and the agricultural stream of the low - skilled Temporary Foreign Workers Program Workers Program (SAWP) and the agricultural stream of the low - skilled Temporary Foreign Workers Program Workers Program (TFWP):

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EPFNA banned recruiters fees and seizure of documents from live - in caregivers but left out seasonal agricultural workers, and those in the temporary foreign worker low skilled program.

And yet, migrant workers who come to Canada under Canada's temporary foreign worker program, especially low - skilled streams, will tell you again and again that they are paying fees, thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars, for the promise of a low - paid, precarious job in Canada.

The political shifts and policy changes impact on critical labour market issues like skills development and the future of Temporary Foreign Worker Programs.

So, it seems that the best laid plans of foreign nationals seeking a better life in Canada are not worth the Skilled Worker Program or Canadian Experience Class applications they are written on.

Tech giants such as Facebook and other big companies, from Bank of America to Caterpillar, have long argued that the 85,000 annual cap on these visas is too low and that they need to bring in more foreign tech workers because they can't find enough highly - skilled American workers.

The H - 1B program, created by the Immigration Act of 1990, was intended to allow American companies to hire foreign workers with specialized skills that firms could not find in the United States.

Simply distinguishing between highly skilled foreign migrants and unskilled or low - skilled immigrants would help pave the way for legislation that protects the employment prospects of local workers without restricting access to the talent that is needed to pull economies further out of recession.

Furthermore, Ms. Sandy has been engaged by several Government of Ontario bodies to design and deliver Career Management training sessions and seminars in order to educate public sector employment services staff on how to best the support and facilitate the needs of Internationally Educated Professionals and Foreign - Trained Skilled Workers.

Allowing for Malaysia's efforts to curb foreign worker numbers, the country still has a high ratio of imported labour to fill geoscience, production and deepwater skills gaps.

Many employers, regardless of the company's headquarters location, hire skilled workers who need housing and lack familiarity with a foreign market.