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Omar Yaqub

Contract work on rise in Canada - 0 views

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shared by Omar Yaqub on 29 Nov 10 - Cached
  • contract work has outpaced all other forms of temporary employment over the past decade
  • 52% of all temporary jobs
  • concentrated in the health, education and public administration fields
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  • paid about 14% less each hour
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ProActive Personnel - 0 views

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shared by Omar Yaqub on 26 Apr 11 - Cached
  • ProActive Personnel is a staffing agency that specializes in temporary, permanent and contract placement throughout Western Canada.
  • Omar Yaqub on 26 Apr 11
     
    ProActive Personnel is a staffing agency that specializes in temporary, permanent and contract placement throughout Western Canada.
Omar Yaqub

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government alberta

shared by Omar Yaqub on 07 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Omar Yaqub on 07 Apr 11
     
    Alladina, Naila Contract Services Coordinator Community and Business Services Employment and Immigration 3rd fl South Tower Seventh Street Plaza 10030 - 107 Street Edmonton, AB T5J 4X7 Phone: 780 422-0833 Fax: 780 422-1197 E-mail: naila.alladina@gov.ab.ca
Omar Yaqub

Five key trends likely to shape the world of work in coming years - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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trends Work canada

shared by Omar Yaqub on 28 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Five key trends likely to shape the world of work in coming years
  • GREYING WORK FORCE:
  • GOING GLOBAL: Overseas experience, familiarity with other cultures and the ability to speak multiple languages will take on ever-greater importance in this globalized economy.
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  • COLLABORATION: Technology, including social media and a need for innovation, will spark more collaboration – employees will work on teams within organizations and together with suppliers, customers and even rivals.
  • CONTRACT WORK: The long-term shift toward temporary or contract work is expected to accelerate as employers favour a more nimble work force. That may bring more flexibility for free-agent workers – but also more insecurity.
  • REMOTE WORK: Forget showing up for the 9-to-5 grind. The changing face of work will mean using more mobile technology to work at the coffee shop, at home in pyjamas or while in transit.
Omar Yaqub

Frequently asked questions: Working temporarily in Canada - 0 views

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work spouses immigrants

shared by Omar Yaqub on 24 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Your spouse or common-law partner and children can come with you to Canada or visit you in Canada, but they must meet all the requirements for temporary residents to Canada: they must satisfy an officer that they will only stay in Canada temporarily, and they may have to prove that they have no criminal record. If your spouse or common-law partner and children need temporary resident visas, they must also meet all the conditions for obtaining those visas.
  • If your family members want to follow you to Canada later, they must each fill out a separate application form
  • Can my spouse or common-law partner work in Canada?
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  • If your spouse or common-law partner wants to work while in Canada, they must apply for their own work permit. Normally, they must meet the same requirements that you do, including obtaining (if needed) a labour market opinion from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
  • However, your spouse or common-law partner may be eligible to apply for an “open” work permit that will allow her or him to accept any job with any employer if you meet the conditions outlined below
  • A. You are authorized to work in Canada for six months or longer and the work you are doing while you live in Canada meets a minimum skill level (usually work that would require at least a college diploma). Specifically, your job must be listed in Skill Level 0, A or B
  • If you are the holder of a Post-Graduation Work Permit, which is a type of open work permit, your spouse will need to attach a copy of your work permit to his or her application for an open work permit. Your spouse will also need to provide information about your employment by attaching supporting documents, including: A letter from your current employer confirming employment or a copy of your employment offer or contract; AND A copy of one of your pay slips.
  • B. You are authorized to work in Canada and your spouse or common-law partner is eligible for a work permit through an active pilot projec
  • In each of the above cases, your spouse’s permit will be valid for the same period as yours.
  • If you meet these requirements, your spouse may apply for an open work permit. Your spouse’s permit will be valid for the same period as your authorization to work in Canada. If your job does not fall within the categories listed above, your spouse may still apply for a work permit, but it will have to be for a specific job and in most cases, the employer will have to obtain a labour market opinion (the normal authorization required for the employer to hire you) from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.
  • In some cases, your spouse or partner will need a medical examination.
  • If they have not already applied overseas, spouses and partners may apply for their work permit from within Canada.
  • Can my dependent children work in Canada? Can my dependent children work in Canada? If your dependent children want to work while in Canada, they must apply for their own work permit
  • Normally, they must meet the same requirements that you do, including (if needed) a labour market opinion (LMO) from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.
Omar Yaqub

Importing Foreign Workers- The Basics - 0 views

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shared by Omar Yaqub on 02 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Canada has agreed to the inclusion of the following service sectors in the GATS agreement: business services, communication services, construction services, distribution services, environmental services, financial services, tourism and travel related services and transport services.
  • A GATS professional is one who seeks to engage, as part of a services contract, in an activity at a professional level, provided that the person possesses the necessary credentials and qualifications. There are nine accepted professions under GATS:
  • • engineers; • agrologists; • architects; • forestry professionals; • geomatics professionals; • land surveyors; • legal consultants; • urban planners; and • senior computer specialists.
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  • Under GATS professionals may only work in Canada for a period of 90 days in any 12 month period
  • Spouses Spouses (including common-law partners) of temporary foreign workers can apply for a work permit without a confirmation from HRSDC, provided that the principal applicant is authorized by a work permit to work in Canada for at least six months. Initial this category was only available for spouses of skilled workers but recently it has been expanded to cover spouses of any temporary worker. The spouse of a temporary worker may apply for an open work permit, which allows the spouse to accept almost any job. The spouse's work permit will expire when the principal applicant's work permit expires.
  • As a general rule, a person who is not a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident must hold a valid work permit in order to work in Canada. Work permits are issued by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (“CIC”). Further, as a general rule, prior to the CIC issuing a work permit, the employer must receive a confirmation of employment from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (“HRSDC”). This confirmation of employment is referred to as a “Labour Market Opinion” (“LMO”).
  • Foreign workers may also require a temporary resident visa to work in Canada; however, citizens and permanent residents of the U.S. are exempt from this requirement.
  • Under Canadian immigration law, it is the worker who must apply for and receive the work permit.
  • foreign worker must submit to CIC a copy of the HRSDC confirmation of employment and a detailed description of the employment offer (provided by the employer). There is a non-refundable fee of C$150 for processing an application for an individual work permit.
  • worker may apply for a work permit before entering Canada, at a port of entry or from inside Canada, depending on the worker's status
  • Generally, temporary foreign workers must apply for a work permit before departing for Canada, although the actual work permit will be printed and given to the foreign worker at the port of entry when he/she enters Canada.
  • If the foreign worker is from the U.S. or if the foreign worker does not need a temporary resident visa to visit Canada and an exemption is available from the requirement to obtain a confirmation of employment
  • the foreign worker is prohibited from applying for a work permit until his or her arrival at a port of entry.
  • If the applicant has been working in Canada for at least three months under an exemption, other than as a business visitor, but wants a permit to accept another job the foreign worker can apply for a work permit while already located in Canada
  • The worker is expected to abide by the terms and conditions set out in the work permit. Work permits are valid only for a specified job, employer and time period. However, workers can apply to the CIC to modify or extend their work permit. An application to extend a work permit should be made at least 3 months prior to the permit's expiry.
  • It is currently taking CIC over 117 days to process an application to renew or to change the terms and conditions of entry to Canada
  • Once the application is submitted the foreign worker can continue in employment pending approval of the extension, as long as they remain in Canada while that application is pending.
  • If the employer dismisses the foreign worker, the employee must apply to change their status to a visitor or find a new employer and apply to change the work permit to that new employer. There is no positive obligation on any employer to report the change in employment status to Immigration
  • Confirmation of Employment As a prerequisite to issuing a work permit, an immigration officer will generally require a Labour Market Opinion or a "confirmation of employment" from HRSDC. An employer who wishes to hire a temporary foreign worker is responsible for having the job offer validated by HRSDC. HRSDC will base its confirmation of employment on the following factors:
  • guidelines introduced by Service Canada for minimal recruitment efforts are as follows and are strictly adhered to:
  • NOC O and A Occupations You will have conducted the minimum advertising efforts required if you: • Conduct recruitment activities consistent with the practice within the occupation (e.g., advertise on recognized Internet job sites, in journals, newsletters or national newspapers or by consulting unions or professional associations); or • Advertise on the national Job Bank (or the equivalent in Newfoundland and Labrador, Saskatchewan or the Northwest Territories) for a minimum of fourteen (14) calendar days, during the three (3) months prior to applying for a LMO
  • If HRSDC is satisfied that the employment offer to a foreign national will not adversely impact the Canadian labour market, it will issue a confirmation of employment or LMO to the employer and enter the confirmation of employment into a database that can be accessed by immigration officials.
  • The employer then generally sends the foreign worker a copy of the LMO, as well as a detailed employment offer to be presented to immigration officials when the worker applies for his/her work permit at an overseas Canadian Consulate or upon the worker's arrival at a port of entry, if the worker is coming from a country that is visa exempt. Upon receipt of the HRSDC confirmation, immigration officials will decide if the foreign worker otherwise qualifies for a work permit.
  • confirmation process through HRSDC is a distinct stage from that of the work permit issuance by CIC. Currently the processing time at HRSDC is estimated at 3 to 5 weeks after receipt of acknowledgement of the application. Acknowledgements of receipt are currently taking 2 to 3 weeks.
  • Workers who require a work permit but not a confirmation of employment include those who are found to provide a significant benefit to Canada, spouses of temporary foreign workers, information technology workers, graduate students under a specialized work program and those who qualify for exemptions under NAFTA and GATS.
  • a 4 year cap on LMOs and an expiry date so foreign workers must rely on it within 6 months of issue or new recruiting efforts will be required.
Omar Yaqub

New cap on Canada work permits for temporary foreign workers comes into effect on April... - 0 views

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  • New cap on Canada work permits for temporary foreign workers comes into effect on April 1 2 EmailShare  2EmailShareSome temporary foreign workers’ time in Canada limited New changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker program are designed to protect temporary foreign workers but will also limit their time in Canada: temporary foreign workers who have worked in Canada for four years will not be allowed to work in Canada until another four-year period has passed. Among the new rules, employers who are unable to provide proper wages or working conditions will receive a two-year ban on hiring temporary foreign workers, and their names will be made public. The history of the employer will be looked at much more closely, ensuring that they have a history of following employment and Temporary Foreign Worker Program laws. Another change is that the government will be looking much more closely at the genuineness of the job offer. Employers will be required to sign a contract with their employees that covers wages, conditions and duties involved with the job, and all recruiting costs, airfare and medical coverage must be handled by the employer. Some exemptions for four-year limit The limit will not apply to seasonal farm workers under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. The changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker program will come into effect on April 1.
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How cities take the renewable energy lead when provinces don't | Pembina Institute - 0 views

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cities competitiveness green

shared by Omar Yaqub on 25 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • n the absence of a comprehensive renewable energy plan for Canada, several have begun forging ahead with their own long-term visions to produce renewable energy locally.
  • We see this across Alberta. More than 20 communities, from Athabasca to Pincher Creek, have installed solar electricity systems on highly visible public buildings.
  • at a meeting of the City of Edmonton's Task Force on Renewable Energy that we heard the story of one of the boldest municipal steps to encourage local renewable energy in North America. Gainesville, Florida - home of the Gators and Gatorade - made headlines when they launched the very first municipal feed-in tariff program to facilitate solar energy on homes and businesses.
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  • describing her community, Hanrahan painted a picture familiar to Albertans. Gainesville is an inland medium-sized centricity with a large university, surrounded by agriculture and forests. Coal fuels most of their electricity production. While Gainesville has a (much!) warmer climate than Alberta's cities, it only has about a seven per cent better solar resource for generating electricity than Edmonton does.
  • Gainesville's feed-in tariff guarantees a payment for 20 years for electricity fed back to the grid, set at a rate that will allow owners to recover their costs and obtain a four to five per cent rate of return. To control costs, the program is capped so that contracts are only available for four megawatts of new installed capacity each year. The first 4 MW has cost the average resident about 70¢ per month. As installation costs quickly decrease with a new, robust local solar market, future phases will cost even less.
  • the political obstacles are less daunting at the municipal level.
  • Omar Yaqub on 25 Feb 11
     
    How cities take the renewable energy lead when provinces don't
Omar Yaqub

The Economists - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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Work immigrants

shared by Omar Yaqub on 11 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • biggest growth in employer demand has been for basic labour or unspecified skills,
  • In 2000, 11 per cent of temporary foreign workers performed basic labour or unspecified skills; now 34 per cent of them do.
  • The temporary foreign worker program is really about contracting out immigration," says Yessy Byl, a lawyer who volunteers with the Edmonton Community Legal Centre. “In fact the government is setting the stage for a bizarre non-immigration program because those workers can’t immigrate.”
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  • there’s a danger in allowing employers, alone, to define Canada’s immigration policy: Employers are increasingly looking for average workers, not skilled labour.
Omar Yaqub

Working Temporarily in Canada: Who Can Apply - 0 views

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Work immigrants

shared by Omar Yaqub on 11 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • most cases you will need a written job offer or contract of employment from your employer in Canada before you apply for a work permit. You will also need to provide evidence that you meet the requirements of the job offer.
  • need a positive labour market opinion (LMO) from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
  • most cases, if you need a work permit, you will also require written confirmation from HRSDC that your employer can hire a foreign worker to fill the job. This is called a positive labour market opinion or LMO. It is up to your employer to get this written confirmation.
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  • After your employer gets confirmation that you can be offered a job, the employer will send you the LMO confirmation letter. In some cases, you can submit your work permit application while you wait for the LMO
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Short Term - 0 views

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Work

shared by Omar Yaqub on 20 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Services sector downsized 13,000 to15,000 positions during the downturn - more than any other secto
  • Approximately 70% of the Services sector's workforce is located in the field where workers need to be prepared to work in all weather conditions and may be away from home for long periods of time.
  • Oil and gas key operating areas tend to be in hard-to-recruit locations such as remote areas and regions with low population densities.
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  • Much of the Services sector work is seasonal and activity levels fluctuate with oil and gas prices.
  • The Services sector is a preferred labour supply source for the Exploration and Production and Oil sands sectors that often hire full-time employees from its contracted workforce.
  • The Services sector may be facing a labour shortage, but the industry as a whole will soon have to adapt to a much tighter labour market. During the downturn, cost management was the primary concern for the industry. In the latter half of 2010, attraction, retention and workforce development returned as key priorities for many oil and gas companies. Industry recovery has also increased the challenges around managing compensation and benefits expectations as well as employee turnover/retention. These workforce issues continue to escalate in today's market. For many companies, managing labour issues will be key to sustaining growth.
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