Temporary residency in Canada

Government of Canada takes action to improve employer compliance and better protect temporary foreign workers

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星期三, 九月 27, 2023
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Ensuring the health and safety of these workers while they are in Canada is essential, and Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has been taking action to ensure broad compliance with the rules.

Key Points: 
  • Ensuring the health and safety of these workers while they are in Canada is essential, and Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has been taking action to ensure broad compliance with the rules.
  • Employers who are found to be non-compliant with TFWP conditions are listed on a public-facing website managed by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
  • The Government of Canada takes its responsibilities to protect temporary foreign workers very seriously and continues to take steps to improve employer compliance with the TFWP.
  • The TFWP allows employers in Canada to hire a foreign worker when no Canadians or permanent residents are available.

Migrant workers facing the dangers of wildfires need support

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星期三, 八月 30, 2023
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However, while many have been able to evacuate and receive help, migrant workers have been coping with the effects of the fires with relatively little support.

Key Points: 
  • However, while many have been able to evacuate and receive help, migrant workers have been coping with the effects of the fires with relatively little support.
  • Temporary migrant workers in the Global North are already highly vulnerable to abuse in the workplace and hazardous working conditions.
  • Shortly before the wildfires erupted, our research team was travelling across the Okanagan Valley meeting with migrant workers and interviewing community organizations and farmers.

Poor working conditions

    • Migrant workers also reported bad and unhealthy housing conditions and major obstacles to accessing health care.
    • Some also said they feared reappraisal and dismissal if they refused the hazardous working conditions and strenuous days.
    • Many temporary migrant workers were classified as essential workers during the COVID-19 lockdowns and continued to work during the worst days of the pandemic.
    • As the crisis was unfolding, we reached out to the migrant workers we had interviewed a few days before the wildfires.
    • Javier Robles, a community organizer with KCR Community Resources in Kelowna, said of the migrant workers:
      “They are the backbone of our economy.

Unfair immigration policies

    • The vulnerability of the migrant workers in Canada is directly linked to the immigration program through which they are hired, which provide them few legal protections and rights.
    • Most migrant workers in the Okanagan come through the Temporary Foreign Worker program.
    • Or perhaps people think we do not have anything to say?” Migrant workers in Canada are sadly not alone in not being heard.
    • Migrant workers in Hawaii are now in limbo after wildfires devastated the historic city of Lahaina.
    • Governments must urgently revise immigration policies to ensure that migrants, regardless of their legal status, are able to ask for and receive the support they need during times of crisis.

UFCW Canada welcomes ruling in human trafficking trial and calls for end of labour trafficking

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星期二, 六月 27, 2023
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TORONTO, June 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UFCW Canada, the country’s leading advocate for agricultural workers, welcomes the ruling by Justice Michael MacArthur in the human trafficking trial in London, Ontario.

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  • TORONTO, June 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UFCW Canada, the country’s leading advocate for agricultural workers, welcomes the ruling by Justice Michael MacArthur in the human trafficking trial in London, Ontario.
  • UFCW Canada stands in solidarity with these survivors and all survivors of labour trafficking and calls on the Ontario Government to implement laws that strengthen the human and labour rights of thousands of migrant agricultural workers who make critical contributions to Canada’s food supply.
  • “The Ontario Agricultural Employees Protection Act as it currently exists does not offer adequate protection against labour abuses,” says Santiago Escobar, National Representative at UFCW Canada.
  • Prevention is better than cure.”
    As more labour trafficking investigations are exposed to the outrage of Ontarians, UFCW Canada calls on the Ford Government to offer more support to victims of human trafficking.

STATEMENT - Canada and Kenya conclude successful meeting on immigration

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星期四, 五月 18, 2023
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"Canada values its close ties to Kenya and recognizes the tremendous economic, cultural and social benefits that Kenyans bring when they choose to immigrate to Canada.

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  • "Canada values its close ties to Kenya and recognizes the tremendous economic, cultural and social benefits that Kenyans bring when they choose to immigrate to Canada.
  • The pilot is gaining momentum, with skilled refugees immigrating and continuing their professional careers in Canada.
  • "Minister Fraser was pleased to highlight the existing temporary and permanent pathways, which foreign nationals may use to apply to live, work, visit and study in Canada.
  • In addition, Kenyans who are interested in coming to Canada can consult IRCC's website to determine the programs for which they may be eligible."

Government of Canada expands National Commodity List to give farmers greater access to labour

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星期五, 十一月 27, 2020
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This expansion will allow farmers who cultivate or make these products to seek the help of workers through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP).

Key Points: 
  • This expansion will allow farmers who cultivate or make these products to seek the help of workers through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP).
  • At the same time, it is supporting the domestic workforce and ensuring that the health and safety of foreign workers are protected.
  • The NCL helps determine eligibility and pay within the Primary Agricultural Stream of the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program.
  • Access to the SAWP and the Agricultural Stream is limited to employers hiring workers for the specified commodities on the NCL.

New temporary public policy will allow visitors to apply for a work permit without having to leave Canada

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星期一, 八月 24, 2020
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The measures introduced today will now allow visitors to apply for work permits without having to leave the country first.

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  • The measures introduced today will now allow visitors to apply for work permits without having to leave the country first.
  • Foreign nationals who arrive in Canada as visitors after August 24, 2020, are not eligible under the public policy.
  • Prior to this temporary policy change, a person applying as a temporary resident would usually need to apply for their initial work permit before they came to Canada.
  • If they were already in Canada with visitor status when they were approved for a work permit, they would need to leave Canada and return before their work permit was issued to them.

Government of Canada invests in measures to boost protections for Temporary Foreign Workers and Address COVID-19 Outbreaks on Farms

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星期五, 七月 31, 2020
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Temporary foreign workers have also received direct emails from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) with information on travel and public health measures, as well as the new regulatory requirements for employers and temporary residents, during the pandemic.

Key Points: 
  • Temporary foreign workers have also received direct emails from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) with information on travel and public health measures, as well as the new regulatory requirements for employers and temporary residents, during the pandemic.
  • In 2019, the Government of Canada launched the open work permit for vulnerable workers.
  • For workers hired under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, this means that they cannot work during the initial quarantine period.
  • These regulations support public health across Canada, as well as the health and safety of foreign workers.