Sentences with phrase «use of foreign worker»

The Royal Bank of Canada has had a tough couple of months, most recently reeling from an out - of - nowhere scandal involving the use of foreign workers to replace some of its Canadian IT staff.

«Since the province doesn't monitor the use of foreign workers, we only have anecdotal evidence to go on, but we need to know if there is still widespread use of the program in the construction industry,» said Horgan.

«When the bill was introduced, the minister of Labour indicated his concern about the increase of the use of foreign workers and for that reason it was prudent to extend to all occupations,» says Heather Robson, a lawyer with Sherrard Kuzz LLP in Toronto.

The issue for the UK is how much FDI they are willing to accept because political and local content issues arise, such as housing prices and immigration issues involving the use of foreign workers.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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.

«A significant number of employers are using the Temporary Foreign Worker Program as a tool to suppress wages,» AFL president Gil McGowan charges.

Our government will need to use tariffs to prevent these same foreign (both private and government owned) corporations, who have workers that are forced to work in sweat shops for anything they can get, from dumping (exporting) low cost copies of our Brand named products back into this country.

* FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately

The story aired in April of 2013 and revealed that the RBC was using an Indian company called iGATE Corp. that was bringing in foreign workers under the program, but then allowed the workers to stay in Canada for years, with the intention of using them to replace Canadian workers.

The story showed how Canadaâ $ ™ s biggest bank was using a government program to cruelly exploit defenseless foreign workers while throwing Canadian citizens out of work.

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.

A draft presidential memorandum at the end of the document that could be used to order the review of NAFTA orders the report to pay «extra consideration to the effects such a policy change may have on the middle class, manufacturing and service sector workers, and foreign direct investment into the United States.»

Another Italian company had tried to teach their Chinese employees Italian (not out of national chauvinism, but because Italian training manuals could then be used in China, perhaps also because Chinese workers whose only foreign language was Italian could not so easily be lured away to work for other foreign companies).

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

In contrast, members of the opposition and numerous independent media sources highlighted among other things the poor quality of indelible ink — the first time it was used in a Malaysian election — which could be washed off almost immediately, early voting for servicemen and civil servants, state domination of media and repression of independent journalists, and perhaps most troubling of all, the mobilization by Barisan Nasional of foreign guest workers to vote in key constituencies.

On Jan. 20th Canadian Press reported on a pipeline engineer who had been fired by Bechtel Corp for his whistle blowing; he had written of, «Cheap foreign steel that cracked when workers tried to weld it, foundations for pump stations that you would never consider using in your own home, fudged safety tests... short cuts on the steel and rebar that are essential for safe pipeline operation, and siting of facilities on completely inappropriate spots like wetlands.»

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.»

Before the public outcry surrounding the use of Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) at RBC quiets down, it is important to fully assess the problems with the TFW program.

Secondly, the developed world economies, who were considered immigration market leaders by «ease of use» standards, have become protectionist and fearful of «foreign workers.»

Using a question and answer format the ACLRC answers many of the most frequentsly asked questions about Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program

The use of incorrect statistics and skewed economic arguments to demand the exclusion of Temporary Foreign Workers by people all along the political spectrumhearkens to a lengthy history of exclusion of immigrants from Canada.

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.

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.

The temporary foreign worker program just went through a major overhaul geared towards «putting Canadians first» and ensuring Canadians are given the first choice of jobs in Canada and to prevent employers exploiting foreign workers or using foreign workers as a cheaper labour source.

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).

In interviews in support of their proposal, CFIB president Dan Kelly admitted that criticism of the TFWP was legitimate, and that employers have made excessive use of Temporary Foreign Workers to fill permanent jobs.

A wide range of experts — from the Parliamentary Budget Officer to the former governor of the Bank of Canada to former Employment Minister Jason Kenney himself — now agree that the Temporary Foreign Worker Program was being used to suppress wages.

MARCH 19 - 20, 2018: Channel 4, a British public - service broadcaster, airs an undercover investigation that videotapes Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix explaining the firm's methods for manipulating elections in foreign countries, including the use of bribes and sex workers («beautiful Ukrainian girls») to entrap politicians.

Many countries imposed performance requirements on foreign investors so that they had to hire a certain proportion of local workers, or use a particular level of local content.

Even before Canada's immigration laws became more complicated earlier this year thanks to a series of changes to the temporary foreign worker rules, Robert Piasentin was using specialized immigration law boutique firms to help the company he works for navigate the often perplexing world of immigration law.