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Chinese miners in B.C. | Review of foreign worker program
Controversial plans to hire 201 Chinese workers at a proposed mine in northern British Columbia have prompted Ottawa to announce a review of its entire foreign worker program, with the government suggesting the case has revealed deeper problems with a system designed to fill short-term labour shortages. Human Resources Minister Diane Finley issued a statement … Continue reading
Immigrant workers | Boosting The Incomes Of Less-Educated Native Workers
. The Economic Impact of Immigrant-Related Local Ordinances “… provides the first comparative look at the average economic effects of how restrictive versus non-restrictive immigration-related city ordinances affect a city’s business environment” writes the Americas Society. “Since 2005, in a climate of increasing concern and urgency about the nation’s current and future migratory flows, cities and … Continue reading
Canada – Trade Union slams ‘mass importation’ of Chinese workers for B.C. coal mine
A major B.C. labour organization denounced on Monday the “mass importation” of Chinese workers to mine coal in the northeast part of the province, saying it is “preposterous” to suggest British Columbians don’t have the skills to fill close to 2,000 full-time jobs destined for foreign workers. “We want to register our grave concerns about … Continue reading
Tea Party : Unemployment Higher Among Native Born than Immigrants
The unemployment rate for immigrant workers in the United States is lower than the unemployment rate for native-born workers, according to data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). BLS’s data show that unemployment among foreign born workers in May 2012 was 7.4 percent, while for native-born workers it was 8.0 percent. The data … Continue reading
UK | Skilled Immigrants | A ‘challenge’ to grads jobseekers says Employment Minister Chris Grayling
Young British workers face a “huge challenge” from older and more experienced foreign rivals, Employment Minister Chris Grayling has warned. Chris Grayling said the “deep-rooted problem” meant prospective employees born in the UK were often at a disadvantage when applying for jobs. Business lobby groups have warned that young people were being failed by an … Continue reading
Skills Gap | U.S. | Demand Rises for Skilled-Worker Visas
In a sign of the improving economy, the U.S. government said it saw a sharp rise in petitions for skilled-foreign-worker visas during the first week of this year’s application season. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received 25,600 petitions for H-1B visas since April 2, nearly twice as many as it received for the entire … Continue reading
Immigrant Workers in the U.S. Labor Force in Charts
Debates about illegal immigration, border security, skill levels of workers, unemployment, job growth and competition, and entrepreneurship all rely, to some extent, on perceptions of immigrants’ role in the U.S. labor market. These views are often shaped as much by politics and emotion as by facts. To better frame these debates, this short analysis provides … Continue reading
Canada | Fast track for skilled immigrants
The federal government plans to create a global job bank to bring in more skilled foreign workers, while using a new technique to end the “bizarre” situation in which low-skilled temporary foreign workers are hired in Canadian communities with double-digit unemployment, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Friday. The job bank idea, modelled after New Zealand’s … Continue reading
UK | Firms asked to stop hiring foreign workers by minister Damian Green
NDTV – Amid increasing curbs on Indian and other non-EU professionals, UK authorities on Tuesday asked companies in the country to stop their “addiction” to recruiting foreign workers and hire local workers instead. Thousands of Indian professionals migrate to the UK under the ‘intra-company transfer’ and other routes, but recent and proposed changes have been strongly … Continue reading
Foreign workers forced out by gov’t policy – News – The Prague Post
When Olga S., 33, left her village in west Ukraine nine years ago in search of a job in the Czech Republic, finding work was the easy part of her experience. She did not speak the language and was given a low-skill job at a Prague bakery. She slept at a boarding house for migrant … Continue reading
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