B.C. to partially adopt temporary foreign worker program changes - BERITAJA

The B.C. authorities is opting successful to a caller argumentation alteration by Ottawa, allowing agrarian employers to clasp existing low-wage temporary overseas workers beyond the 10 per cent headdress for different year.

However, B.C. will not beryllium adopting a 2nd national argumentation change, which would let agrarian employers to summation their allowable stock of impermanent workers to 15 per cent.

Speaking successful mobility play connected Monday, Post Secondary Education and Future Skills Minister Jessie Sunner said B.C. went pinch the first action to reside labour challenges businesses are facing.

But she said the programme besides has problems and that closed activity permits, which restrict impermanent overseas workers to 1 employer, could lead to exploitation.

“These are individuals that are coming present to support our economy,” Sunner said.

“We request to guarantee we’re doing everything to support them. We do request to betterment the program. We can’t conscionable person one-off extensions. We request to betterment the programme and that is why our authorities is advocating to the national authorities regularly to opportunity that we request to person greater power complete the economical migration that we person successful our province.”

Seasonal, short-term and superior agriculture positions will stay exempt from the impermanent overseas worker caps.