High-skilled Foreign Workers in Canada – Express Entry could change things

Some employers fear Americans working in Canada through the North American Free Trade Agreement, foreign nationals who have transferred to a Canadian branch and international youth working in Canada could be sideswiped by rules under the new express entry system that starts Jan. 1.

New regulations suggest employers who want to offer permanent jobs to high-skilled temporary foreign workers who are already working here will not only have to ask them to apply for permanent residency under express entry, they will also have to prove they made every effort to hire a Canadian first.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at High-skilled foreign workers could be sideswiped under express entry – Politics – CBC News.