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Temporary foreign workers will be better protected after new safeguards take effect April 1. New improved changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) will ensure that the program continues to be fair to employers and that the program maintain its focus on easing temporary labour shortages in Canada.
The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is driven by employer demand
and aimed at filling identified labour shortages where no suitable
Canadian workers or permanent residents are available. It is jointly
managed by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Human Resources and
Skills Development Canada.
The regulatory improvements to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program include the most significant changes to the program in many years. The new changes include:
- a more rigorous assessment of the genuineness of the job offer.
- a two-year period of ineligibility for hiring temporary foreign workers for employers who fail to meet their commitments with respect to wages, working conditions and occupation; and
- a four-year limit on the length of time some temporary foreign workers may work in Canada before returning home.
Canada respects and and recognizes the importance of temporary foreign workers to employers in certain industries and that's why the government has why identified some workers who will be exempt from the four-year limit, such as workers who come to Canada through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and play such a critical role in the harvest across the country.
For more details on the regulatory improvements, please see Protecting Temporary Foreign Workers and Four-Year Limit for Foreign Nationals Working in Canada.
