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UK / Jobcentres’ job also offered to other European member states workers
Under an EU scheme partly funded by British taxpayers, all positions advertised in UK jobcentres also have to be offered to workers in European member states Continue reading
US / A skills Gap ? Most H-1B IT Foreign Workers hold entry-level positions
There is little empirical evidence to suggest that foreign engineers displace American engineers as a whole. If anything, one recent study suggests, the growth of immigrant workers in American companies helps younger American technical workers — more of them are hired and at higher-paying jobs — but has no noticeable consequences, good or bad, on … Continue reading
Canada / The Controversy over Chinese miners is not over
One resident of an unnamed British Columbia community claimed to personally know 40 unemployed miners who would be more than happy to work at a proposed coal mine in the province’s northeast that was instead slated to employ temporary Chinese workers. Another lamented the mine’s hiring plan as just the latest example of Canadian resources … Continue reading
Canada / Is the widespread assumption that Canada is suffering from a growing shortage of labour true?
“When the Royal Bank of Canada was recently caught up in a maelstrom of bad publicity over its use of temporary foreign workers, it led politicians and pundits to scrutinize and question the growing use by Canadian firms of imported, short-term labour” Kevin McQuillan in ALL THE WORKERS WE NEED: DEBUNKING CANADA’S LABOUR- SHORTAGE FALLACY (Adapted … Continue reading
Canada / After the RBC outsourcing fiasco
..The recent RBC outsourcing fiasco was so unusual, revealing and, for many Canadians, infuriating. The story centred on about 50 IT workers who found their jobs outsourced and themselves fired. It got to be news only because it was outrageous: the soon-to-be fired employees had to train foreign workers, brought into the country by a … Continue reading
Canada and the Talent War / Governments are courting skilled workers
Canadian governments, at both the national and provincial levels, are courting skilled workers such as plumbers, pipefitters, electricians and others from the U.S. and elsewhere. In addition to the program under which Thomas was hired, a category for specific trades began in January to address labour shortages while easing the path to residency, the federal … Continue reading
Canada’s New Rules / Hiring foreign workers should be ‘last resort’ says Kenney
The federal government plans to tighten up the temporary foreign workers program with new legislation that would require businesses to hire employees from abroad as a “last resort.” Ottawa wants to charge employers a new fee for labour market opinions and increase the existing fees for foreigners’ work permits. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney also announced … Continue reading
Canada / Ottawa rushes to reform foreign-worker program
Faced with continuing criticisms that foreigners are taking jobs away from Canadians, the Conservative government is rushing to make reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, with officials working to include changes in the upcoming budget bill. However the government’s new-found sense of urgency – which was clearly expressed last week by Prime Minister Stephen … Continue reading
Germany / Elite Young Immigrants, The New Guest Workers
A new generation of immigrants is coming to Germany: Europe’s crisis refugees. They are young, well-educated and multilingual. Many feel that their prospects at home disappeared when the European financial system began to falter, followed by the collapse of domestic labor markets in a number of countries. They are now going to Germany, just as … Continue reading
Denmark / A massive increase in highly skilled foreign workers
Denmark has seen a massive increase in highly skilled foreign workers in recent years, a new report has shown. According to fresh figures from the Danish Immigration Service (Udlændingestyrelsen), the number of educated people immigrating to Denmark from abroad has increase five-fold in the last two decades. Only 3,000 skilled non-EU foreigners entered the country for … Continue reading
Oman / Minimum wage raised and the number of foreign workers restricted
Oman’s parliament, the Shura Council, approved a much higher minimum wage and curbs on the employment of foreigners on Saturday, aiming to prevent joblessness again becoming a source of anger for Omani citizens. The cabinet proposed the moves last week in an attempt to spur private sector employment levels among Omanis after complaints about the … Continue reading
Canada / Union Challenges Chinese Miners’ Work Permits
Unions in B.C. will be back in court this week trying to stop a group of foreign workers from coming to Canada to work at a new coal mine in Tumbler Ridge. At stake are permits for more than 200 Chinese mineworkers who were hired to do specialized work at the underground mine in northern … Continue reading
Canada / Mandarin: a requirement for jobs at B.C. mine
A mining company under scrutiny over its plan to bring 201 Chinese miners to a proposed project in northern British Columbia listed Mandarin as a language requirement when it applied for temporary foreign worker permits, newly released documents reveal. The Federal Court released a package of documents Friday linked to HD Mining’s proposed Murray River … Continue reading
HD Mining / Jobs advertised in China at lower pay
A mining company that has hired hundreds of temporary workers from China for its northern B.C. coal mine advertised those jobs in Canada for $10 to $17 less than what is paid for similar work at a nearby mine, a lawyer representing two unions told a federal court judge on Friday. HD Mining also advertised … Continue reading
Canada / Are Temporary foreign workers filling gap or depressing wages?
News that a consortium of mostly Chinese companies will seek permission to use exclusively Chinese labour for underground work in four proposed B.C. coal mines has blown the lid off a simmering debate over the dramatic increase in the use of Canada’s temporary foreign worker program. The Harper government, which only last spring announced measures … Continue reading
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