Sentences with phrase «temporary workers in»

Dan Forbes - Pepitone, Director of Talent and Capability at Skanska UK, said: «Working with Hays Talent Solutions we have developed an effective solution that will not only bring significant savings to Skanska but will also standardise the way we bring temporary workers in to Skanska — this means assured compliance, greater efficiency for hiring managers, improved reporting and will have a positive impact both for the business and the individuals who work for us on a temporary basis.»

There's a similar peak in finding temporary workers in the summer too.

The reality is a lot of people who do temporary work do it because they can't find permanent work and companies who use temporary workers in many cases don't require permanent employees, she says.

Statistics Canada numbered current temporary workers in Ontario at over 747,000, although the numbers of those engaged as temp agency employees rather than being hired directly is difficult to precisely gauge (Statistics Canada stopped collecting this data in 2004).

Not to be confused with the Long Gun Registry, Minister Bains has been directed to create a Temporary Foreign Worker Registry to ``... help protect vulnerable workers from exploitation and to track the use of temporary workers in our economy.»

In the labour relations context, for example, labour boards have long included temporary workers in larger, all - inclusive bargaining units with «regular» employees.

Pregnant casual or temporary workers in Quebec have the right to withdraw from unsafe work environments just as permanent workers do, according to the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in Dionne v. Commission scolaire des Patriotes, 2014 SCC 33 (CanLII).

On January 24th, SSEC Canada Ltd, the Canadian subsidiary of Sinopec Shanghai Engineering, was fined $ 1.5 million (CAD) after pleading guilty to workplace safety breaches that resulted in the deaths of two Chinese temporary workers in Alberta in 2007.

B.C. New Democrats support the call for a federal review of the TFW program and a new provincial registry to track numbers and sectors of temporary workers in B.C.

Not exact matches

THE use of migrant workers to bolster the workforce in Western Australia is becoming more commonplace, with a 12 per cent increase in the number of temporary visa holders in the state.

Other sources of stress can be an influx of temporary workers, seeing industrial development in what used to be a rural area, heavy truck traffic and concerns about declining home prices.

Canada has yet to experience such a backlash, but the recent furor over temporary foreign workers and simmering resentment in some quarters against immigrants could sour the mood towards foreign students.

«They've kept the older workers in the labour force, they've kept all their workers working longer hours, they've resorted to temporary foreign workers, they've hired young people.

After pulling back on its holiday season hiring in anticipation of weaker sales this year, Macy's (m) said on Friday it will hire another 7,000 temporary workers, citing a strong number of shopper visits so far this Christmas period.

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.

Verizon brought in thousands of temporary workers.

In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associateIn September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associatein a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

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.

Everyone from engineers to welders to project managers has taken part in the program, sometimes for months at a time, helping clients in need of temporary workers.

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.

(Tech startups often bring in workers on temporary three - year work permits with the intention of sponsoring them for permanent residence; each application usually requires an LMIA.)

In 2013 alone, Ottawa approved approximately 240,000 temporary foreign workers.

The temporary foreign worker program has ballooned under the Conservatives from about 100,000 people in 2002 to as many as 338,000 now working across the country.

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

ChAFTA also promises up to 5,000 visas per year for Chinese business and leisure travellers in Australia and limited ability of Chinese companies to use Chinese temporary workers.

Facebook (fb), Boeing (ba), Microsoft (msft), and Amazon (amzn) all have offices in Vancouver, filling them partially with foreign workers on temporary visas who can then collaborate with colleagues in California and Washington State.

Early discussions also include possible new forms of membership among workers who are not traditionally organized, including unemployed workers, students, workers in contract, self - employed, temporary and freelance positions.

The rise in contract workers, such as Uber drivers, or those who work temporary positions for companies means that many U.S. workers are not protected by these laws.

The NLRB, in a statement Thursday, says the purpose of the ruling was to refine its standard of joint - employer status to match up better with the needs of today's workers, where nearly 3 million people are employed on a contract basis through temporary agencies.

Workers» representatives in Geneva reacted angrily to the restructuring plan, saying that 100 fixed jobs and 43 temporary jobs would be lost.

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.

Amazon says it will also hire 2,000 customer service workers for a combination of full - time, part - time and temporary jobs in Kentucky, North Dakota, Washington and West Virginia.

«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.

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:

New data shows how many temporary foreign workers have jobs in manufacturing, but an unknown larger number work in other fields.

«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 increase in freelance, independent and temporary work leads to these types of workers in need of space to work.

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 project would employ a significant number of temporary construction workers during the building phase, though pipelines generally do not require much labor to operate in the long term.

Kenney announced the moratorium on the food service industry Thursday night, after the controversial program made headlines yet again over allegations of misuse of the temporary workers at three McDonald's franchises in Victoria and a pizza restaurant in Weyburn, Sask.

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.

A Qualcomm spokesperson told Fortune in a statement that both full - time and temporary workers will be affected by the layoffs, without citing the specific number of full - time and contract workers that will be cut.

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 %).