Sentences with phrase «of their foreign workers in»

U.S. - born computer science employees are hurt by the influx of foreign workers in the field, but for the American computer scientists who make up 1.7 % of the workforce, wages were depressed by just 1.5 % in 2010, according to Khanna.

Hadid began her career as a reporter for The Gulf News in Dubai in 2004, covering the abuse and hardships of foreign workers in the United Arab Emirates.

Large, brand name companies have been accused of favouring foreign workers over local staff and a moratorium has been placed on the hiring of foreign workers in an entire market segment.

The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) has released this second report on the working and living conditions of foreign workers in Alberta.

In fact, in 2011, the number of foreign workers in Brazil jumped to over 1.5 million, an incredible 57 % increase.

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 workerIn 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 workerin Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workers.

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.

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.

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

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 soiIn 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 soiin as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soil.

He argues that the benefits of bringing foreign talent to work in the U.S. are far - reaching, despite the displacement of some American workers.

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..

To operate in one of the most exciting growth markets on the planet, the company had to grapple with Brazil's strict regulatory apparatus and leap over a menacing tariff wall that keeps out foreign - made products and workers.

«Canada's media and cultural industries are being severely damaged by the tax loopholes that benefit foreign digital companies and platforms at the expense of Canadian producers and workers and that cost the federal government at least $ 1 billion in revenues,» the union wrote in a statement on its website.

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 companieIn 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 companiein the number of visas available to highly skilled workers employed by technology companies.

With so many U.S. corporations racing to the bottom — moving manufacturing to foreign countries for cheap labor and no environmental responsibility, taking advantage of the H1 - B Visa program to bring cheap workers in, lowering benefits and eliminating pension plans — it's refreshing to learn that some companies are taking the exact opposite approach.

That's because 71 percent of crop workers are foreign born and nearly half of farmhands are not legally authorized to work in the United States, according to the USDA.

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.

Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico's most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $ 1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.

And the association has been joining hands with groups like Silicon Valley Leadership Group to show members of Congress how the economies of states like California are almost entirely dependent on foreign workers, from the people who grow and produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge says

He pays $ 15,000 per employee to manage the H1 - B visa process for five of his employees who are also foreign workers, and are chronically in danger of not being readmitted to the country when they do things like go back to their home countries to visit family.

Then, they started talking about getting companies to list all their foreign workers, and this time I (or rather, our algo traders in Singapore) completely lost the plot, because there's only two Brits on my desk of 12.

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.

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:

«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.

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.

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 %).

«Visa programs for foreign workers... should be administered in a manner that protects the civil rights of American workers and current lawful residents, and that prioritizes the protection of American workers — our forgotten working people — and the jobs they hold.»

In other words, the future of the Canadian marketplace will soon depend for its very survival on a steady supply of foreign - born workers.

By 2001, more than 21 % of workers in the sector were foreign - born.

Research by the Economic Policy Institute suggests that there may be less of a shortage of STEM workers than assumed by the bill's proponents, and loopholes in the bill will allow unscrupulous companies to use H - 1B visas to fill jobs with cheaper foreign workers when U.S. workers would do.

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.

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.

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.

These firms, putatively in the vanguard of advanced technology and certainly in the vanguard in Capitol Hill lobbying regarding H - 1B, are paying almost all of the foreign workers wages below the median for the given region.

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.

Canadians have reacted angrily to outsourcing in the past, with Ottawa making changes to its rules on foreign workers after the Royal Bank of Canada (TSX: RBC) drew criticism in the spring for cutting Canadian jobs after contracting a supplier to provide IT assistance, which brought in foreign workers to fill them.

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.

At the same time, Chinese contractors that operate on an entirely new model — exporting thousands of their own low - cost workers to foreign job sites, for example — are starting to compete in the markets where Bechtel is strongest.

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 2011, about 800,000 new private - sector jobs were created, but of these, 80 percent went to foreign workers.

The senior official said the end result of how the system currently works is that foreign workers are often brought in at less pay to replace American workers, «violating the principle of the program.»