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Canada has exempted certain temporary foreign workers crucial to the battle against coronavirus from having to give biometrics before arrival. The exemption applies to occupations in the following fields: Agricultural and agri-food Health-care Truck drivers Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) issued a Temporary Public Policy to implement the change on June 5, 2020. “Temporary
Canada’s federal government has moved to slash the time it takes for temporary foreign workers to be allowed to start a new job to help employers during the coronavirus crisis. Under a new public policy, published on Tuesday, May 12, foreign workers already in Canada with a new job offer backed by a Labour Market
November 16, 2018 – Several Canada immigration developments have taken place in the last few months that may have an impact on: Canadian permanent residents; Canada Citizenship; Criminal inadmissibility/impaired driving offences, and Quebec Immigration programs. In the latest immigration.ca livestream video, Immigration Lawyer Colin Singer provides a round-up of the developments, and some analysis on
Canada’s temporary foreign worker program has been experiencing rapid growth and the reason often cited is that the program is needed in areas suffering from severe labour shortages. However, it comes as quite a surprise that TFW figures in South-western Ontario have suddenly increased given that the labour market in the region has been declining
After years of praising the Temporary Foreign Worker program, Employment Minister Jason Kenney has suddenly slammed the door in the face of the program’s biggest user: the hospitality industry. Statistics show that the Temporary Foreign Worker program has been gradually spiralling out of control. Despite initially being introduced as a ‘last resort’ program, one in
A new report suggests that Canada’s increasing reliance upon temporary foreign workers to solve labour shortages could have the unintended consequence of “de-skilling” the immigrant labour pool. The report, compiled and released this month by Montreal’s Institute for Research on Public Policy, specifically examined provincial nominee programs, which often help temporary foreign workers to fast-track
Alberta’s nominee program has been criticized for its lack of transparency while choosing temporary foreign workers who would be allowed to stay in Canada permanently. The province had used a confidential list of 34 occupations last year to determine which workers will stay on. According to Clarizze Truscott of the Temporary Foreign Workers Support Coalition,
In recent months, several serious abuses of the Temporary Foreign Worker program throughout Canada have come to light and now the government has imposed restrictions on the program, especially for restaurants. Many businesses have had to do without temporary foreign workers. Some businesses that had used the TFWP now have their eye on a new system
In 2013, temporary foreign workers filed at least 250 complaints across Canada related to mistreatment by employers. However, this figure, obtained by CBC News from individual provinces, only represents a small piece of a potentially larger problem. Only three provinces — Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador — regularly track complaints made by migrant workers making
Complaints that three McDonald’s franchises in Victoria were favouring foreign workers over domestic aired by the CBC in early April and quickly led to sweeping changes to the work in Canada program, affecting every sector in the country. Rapid response to problems by government is usually worthy of applause, but for a complex program that’s
