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Author: Briant Lindsay Lowell Publisher: Praeger ISBN: 1567202276 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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Lowell and the contributors to this volume explore the labor market impacts these people are having, and lay out a variety of policy options to deal with them. Drawing upon their own extensive experience and newly available empirical work by others, the editor and contributors break new ground to provide readers with the first book-length analysis devoted exclusively to foreign temporary workers in the United States.
Author: Briant Lindsay Lowell Publisher: Praeger ISBN: 1567202276 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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Lowell and the contributors to this volume explore the labor market impacts these people are having, and lay out a variety of policy options to deal with them. Drawing upon their own extensive experience and newly available empirical work by others, the editor and contributors break new ground to provide readers with the first book-length analysis devoted exclusively to foreign temporary workers in the United States.
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"The TFW Program was created in 1973 to allow employers to hire foreign nationals to fill gaps in their workforces on a temporary basis. The program has grown and been updated over the years to respond to Canadian labour market conditions. However, employers and temporary foreign workers have expressed long-standing concerns over various aspects of the program. Significant reforms announced in June 2014 have also had an impact on them. In February 2016, in response to feedback from various stakeholders with respect to the TFW Program, the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour indicated that a comprehensive review of the program was imminent and that a study by a parliamentary committee could offer support in this regard. On 21 March 2016, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (the Committee) adopted a motion to study the TFW Program, with a "focus on the current program and ways to improve it." The Committee held a total of five meetings between 11 May and 1 June 2016, during which time it heard from 47 witnesses, including representatives from two federal government departments, labour organizations, advocacy groups, industry associations, business representatives, as well as temporary foreign workers. In addition to these public hearings, the Committee received a total of 63 briefs"--p. 1.
Author: Catherine E. Connelly Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0228018005 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 158
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If you believed most of what’s said about the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker program, you might naturally assume that there is a trade-off between workers’ poor experiences with the program and employers’ significant benefits. In reality, the experiences of workers are far worse than is commonly acknowledged, while employers are not reaping as much benefit as the public might suppose. In Enduring Work Catherine Connelly draws on over one hundred interviews with people connected to different aspects of this program, analyzing their experiences from the perspective of organizational behaviour and human resources management. She compares the lived reality of agricultural workers, in-home caregivers, and low- and high-wage workers, showing how and why each group is vulnerable to mistreatment, albeit in different ways. She further explores how employment agencies and immigration consultants contribute to program abuses. Critically, Enduring Work provides the perspectives of employers, distinguishing between the reluctant users of the program who follow the rules and the reckless users who do not. Groundbreaking in its analysis of an issue very much in the news, Enduring Work unpacks the harms within Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program and offers nuanced strategies to improve it.
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This publication offers an overview of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada and provides a summary of the benefits and concerns surrounding temporary migration. A "temporary foreign worker" or "migrant worker" is a foreign national engaged in paid work activity who is authorized, with the appropriate documentation, to enter and to remain in Canada for a limited period. A "work permit" allows a foreign national to engage in employment in Canada, and a "visa" allows a foreign national to enter Canada. Depending on the nature of the activity in Canada and the country of origin of the foreign worker, a work permit and/or visa may not be necessary. This paper will focus on authorized temporary foreign workers at a national level and does not describe provincial programs for temporary foreign workers.
Author: Michele Ford Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501735160 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 133
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What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand were uniformly hostile towards foreign workers, but Ford deftly shows how times and attitudes have begun to change. Now, she argues, NGOs and the Global Union Federations are encouraging local unions to represent and advocate for these peripheral workers, and in some cases succeeding. From Migrant to Worker builds our understanding of the role the international labor movement and local unions have had in developing a movement for migrant workers' labor rights. Ford examines the relationship between different kinds of labor movement actors and the constraints imposed on those actors by resource flows, contingency, and local context. Her conclusions show that in countries—Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand—where resource flows and local factors give the Global Union Federations more influence local unions have become much more engaged with migrant workers. But in countries—Japan and Taiwan, for example—where they have little effect there has been little progress. While much has changed, Ford forces us to see that labor migration in Asia is still fraught with complications and hardships, and that local unions are not always able or willing to act.
Author: Melissa Pang Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 13
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This publication offers an overview of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada and provides a summary of the benefits and concerns surrounding temporary migration. A "temporary foreign worker" or "migrant worker" is a foreign national engaged in paid work activity who is authorized, with the appropriate documentation, to enter and to remain in Canada for a limited period. A "work permit" allows a foreign national to engage in employment in Canada, and a "visa" allows a foreign national to enter Canada. Depending on the nature of the activity in Canada and the country of origin of the foreign worker, a work permit and/or visa may not be necessary. This paper will focus on authorized temporary foreign workers at a national level and does not describe provincial programs for temporary foreign workers.
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