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Kenney to consider local exemptions to TFW program after provincial complaints
Kenney to consider local exemptions to TFW program after provincial complaints – See more at: http://www.hrreporter.com/articleview/21737-kenney-to-consider-local-exemptions-to-tfw-program-after-provincial-complaints#sthash.HmmqMz7D.dpuf
Employment Minister Jason Kenney said Friday he’s willing to consider “local exemptions” to his recent overhaul of the temporary foreign worker program.
Kenney said he’ll consider changes in specific areas with very low levels of unemployment in regions with a higher level.
But Kenney made it clear he won’t compromise on the core goal of his controversial overhaul to the program: Making sure employers don’t use it as a cheap source of labour when they could be hiring unemployed Canadians.
“I did reiterate that these important changes are designed to ensure that Canadians always come first in our job market and that the temporary foreign worker program is only a last, limited and temporary resort,” Kenney said in Charlottetown after a meeting with provincial labour ministers.
Kenney said that after listening to the concerns of the provinces and territories, he is taking the grievances seriously.
– See more at: http://www.hrreporter.com/articleview/21737-kenney-to-consider-local-exemptions-to-tfw-program-after-provincial-complaints#sthash.HmmqMz7D.dpuf
Employment Minister Jason Kenney said Friday he’s willing to consider ”local exemptions” to his recent overhaul of the temporary foreign worker program.
Kenney said he’ll consider changes in specific areas with very low levels of unemployment in regions with a higher level.
But Kenney made it clear he won’t compromise on the core goal of his controversial overhaul to the program: Making sure employers don’t use it as a cheap source of labour when they could be hiring unemployed Canadians.
“I did reiterate that these important changes are designed to ensure that Canadians always come first in our job market and that the temporary foreign worker program is only a last, limited and temporary resort,” Kenney said in Charlottetown after a meeting with provincial labour ministers.
Kenney said that after listening to the concerns of the provinces and territories, he is taking the grievances seriously. [Read More…]
B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to hear TFW complaint against Timmies
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has decided to hear complaints by a number of temporary foreign workers against a Tim Hortons franchise in Fernie, B.C. The United Steel Workers filed the complaints on behalf of the workers. The union and the workers are alleging the Tim Hortons franchisee provided inadequate employer accommodations and the franchise owner would drive workers to the bank, get them to cash their cheques, and demand they return a part of their overtime pay. According to Stephen Hunt, Western Canada Director for the USW, the workers, who were from the Philippines, approached the union around six months ago. “The union did some research with them and determined that it looked to them like a violation of workers rights and human rights, they started to give them a hand,” he says. The union hired Koskie Glavin Gordon, a Vancouver-based employee and union-side law firm, to represent the workers. The firm has been involved with a number of cases involving temporary foreign workers that had been abused, including high-profile complaints against HD Mining and Denny’s. [Read More…]Julia Strickland, Leading Californian Litigator, on Getting to the Top in Law – See more at: http://www.thenextwomen.com/2012/12/21/julia-strickland-leading-californian-litigator-getting-top-law#sthash.rK6XRXEF.dpuf
Western premiers say their provinces badly need temporary foreign workers
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But one remarkable attorney accomplishes this task and succeeds with distinction. Julia Strickland stands at the pinnacle as the class action defense litigator and source for compliance and regulatory advice for the financial industry. No one in California represents as many high-profile financial institutions as her—and no one is more successful in defending those firms in class actions and in dealings with state and federal regulators.
Her impressive roster of clients includes American Express, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Discover, HSBC, Sallie Mae, PayPal and many others. She manages the Los Angeles office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP. She has been at Stroock since 1978 and was the first summer associate in the Los Angeles office in 1977. She is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. She oversees fifteen attorneys in her Class Action/Financial Services Group.
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Western provinces have a genuine, pressing need for skilled labour and the federal government’s recent overhaul of its temporary foreign worker program goes too far, the interim Alberta premier said Thursday.
“All of us agree that the changes are detrimental to our jurisdictions,” Dave Hancock said at the end of a brief western premiers’ conference hosted in Iqaluit, in the eastern Arctic, by Nunavut Premier Peter Taptuna.
“We will continue to talk to federal government about that. But we also want to talk more broadly with the federal government … on immigration policy, on labour market policy.”
In the communique released at the end of their meeting, the western leaders chastised Ottawa on temporary workers. [Read More…]
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