Sentences with phrase «of temporary foreign worker»

Employers have used the Internet, recruiters, and other mechanisms to fill these types of roles for many years and have depended on the flexibility of the temporary foreign worker program to bring in workers in a fast and efficient manner (even when the program has failed to provide fast or efficient service).

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.

This could limit legitimate use of the temporary foreign worker program by employers who are innovating or moving into new fields or emerging markets that necessitate the hiring of outside talent.

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The main company in question immediately called a review of its temporary foreign worker hiring policy and said in press statements it would work with the government to get to the bottom of things.

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

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

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 number of temporary foreign workers has increased 36 % to 338,189 since 2008.

«Minister Kenney has now banned the use of temporary foreign workers in food services,» McGowan said Friday.

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.

Within the first minute of Kenney's remarks, a protester stood up and shouted about unfair treatment of temporary foreign workers.

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.»

«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.

By December 2014, the number of temporary foreign workers in B.C. increased to 84,000.

It comes amid mounting concern over deteriorating workplace standards in Australia, including underpayments, the exploitation of temporary foreign workers and the misuse of contracting and labour - hire arrangements.

Often employers are only in tune with the status of their temporary foreign workers if a labour market opinion is required, or the employer supported their provincial nominee application.

The election platform casts the issue in a different light, and instead focuses on preventing abuses of temporary foreign workers, providing a path for foreign workers to «remain in BC», and improving recognition of foreign credentials.

In fact, less than 50 per cent of all temporary foreign workers are in Canada under this category.

In November 2007, the AFL Temporary Foreign Worker Advocate released «Alberta's Disposable Workforce» which examined the working and living conditions of temporary foreign workers in Alberta, documenting serious exploitation and abuse at the hands of employers and the government.

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has decided to hear complaints by a number of temporary foreign workers against a Tim Hortons franchise in Fernie, B.C.

The expansion of the temporary foreign workers program, theft of E.I. benefits from migrant workers and Canadian citizens alike, are all part of one «cheap labour» strategy.

Monitoring the use of the temporary foreign workers, and the lawful use of the program by employers should be an ongoing initiative by the government taken with seriousness.

The requirement is the hiring of the temporary foreign workers will have a neutral or positive effect on the Canadian labour market.

Prior to these changes, there were essentially two categories of temporary foreign workers — those who required a Labour Market Opinion («LMO») and those who were LMO - exempt.

Our firm is involved in a class action lawsuit against Overseas and Mac's convenience stores on behalf of temporary foreign workers who paid recruitment fees and / or did not receive jobs after signing employment contracts to work for Mac's, or Subway locations in Mac's stores, in Western Canada.

The amendments aim to improve the protection of temporary foreign workers (TFWs).

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 nature.

When talk first began about reforms to the TFWP and employer sanctions for failing to comply with it, much of the reform seemed to centre around those individual employers that took advantage of temporary foreign workers or the labour market.

Senator Tardif: The government is putting in place policies to increase the number of temporary foreign workers.

Senator LeBreton: On the whole issue of temporary foreign workers, obviously, before bringing temporary foreign workers in, the object is to ensure that there are not Canadians who can fill these jobs.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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 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.

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

Government officials also floated the possibility of significantly higher fees for companies seeking temporary foreign workers.

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

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

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.

In 2011, including the agricultural sector, nearly 450,000 temporary foreign workers came to Canada, more than doubling the size of the program over the last decade.

A consistent shortage of these temporary work visas prevents U.S. tech companies from hiring the foreign - born scientific and engineering workers they need.

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.

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.

In response to a question posed by Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland on temporary foreign workers, Jason Kenney, the Minister of Employment and Social Development gave the following response:

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.