Reading Time: 2 minutes In the last fiscal year, 36 employers were banned from the Temporary Foreign Worker program — a threefold increase from the previous year — the federal government said this week.
Thirty-six employers banned from Temporary Foreign Worker program, federal agency says
Strong borders bill could increase temporary foreign worker vulnerability says National Farmers Union
Bill C-2 would give federal government ability to cancel or modify swaths of immigration documents, permits
Reading Time: 3 minutes The National Farmers Union (NFU) says Bill C-2, called the Strong Borders Act, might increase the vulnerability of temporary foreign workers.
Conservatives would scrap temporary foreign worker program says Poilievre
Party’s plan includes a phase-out period and new, standalone agriculture worker program
Reading Time: 2 minutes Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program should be scrapped and a standalone agriculture program should be created.
Temporary foreign worker system called ““Inherently exploitative”
Amnesty International report claims some treatment of Ontario, Quebec workers violates anti-slavery and anti-trafficking legislation
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada's temporary foreign worker (TFW) program is "inherently exploitative and discriminatory"; and violates Canada's international obligations according to a report from Amnesty International released today.
Employers of temporary foreign workers got more fines, bans in 2024
Reading Time: < 1 minute Employment and Social Development Canada handed out $2.1 million in financial penalties to employers of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) between April and September 2024. This was more than double the fines given in the same period of 2023, according to a federal news release.
Food and beverage sector sees softening demand for workers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Job vacancies in food and beverage manufacturing fell to 2019 levels this year, but softening demand for workers isn’t necessarily a positive sign says Farm Credit Canada.
COMMENT: The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is a failure, and new immigration limits make a bad situation worse
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) was seemingly set up to fail. Multiple successive governments have long passed the buck to the next and still none are willing to fix it.
Immigration minister calls era of “unlimited supply of cheap labour” at an end
Reading Time: < 1 minute The era of an “unlimited supply of cheap labour” in Canada is over, says Immigration Minister Marc Miller.
According to a report from Global News, Miller said employers may need to start offering higher wages to Canadian workers while speaking to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade Wednesday.
‘Less panic’ over new immigration policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government’s new policy on immigration will not have huge consequences for agri-food processors or farmers, say spokespeople for the Canadian Meat Council and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.
Agriculture dodges temporary foreign worker clamp down
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recent rule changes restricting access to temporary foreign workeers will not impact agriculture or food processing, federal employment minister says.
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