Hello all,
Does anyone have experience of getting a positive LMIA, with a wage below the prevailing in Ontario ($21), but above the entry level for their profession??
LMIA states:
Wages, Working Conditions and Occupations
Employers applying for a labour market impact assessment (LMIA) must pay the TFW:
at a minimum, the posted prevailing wage for the occupation and work location where the TFW will be employed; OR
a wage that is within the same wage range that they are paying their current employees working in the same occupation and same work location, if this range is higher than the prevailing wage.
At the same time though, they also say:
Cap on Low-wage category Positions
offering a wage to a TFW tEmployers hat is below the provincial/territorial median hourly wage will be subject to a maximum 10% cap on the proportion of low-wage TFWs. The cap will be phased in over the next 2 years to provide employers who use the Program with time to transition to a Canadian workforce.
Employers that have a low-wage TFW workforce will be:
limited to 30% or frozen at their current level, whichever is lower;
reduced to 20% beginning July 1, 2015; and
further reduced to 10% on July 1, 2016.
The 10% cap is the maximum percentage of low-wage TFWs that an employer will be allowed to have at a work site, as of July 2016.
Both are from the following page:
http://www.esdc.gc.ca/eng/jobs/foreign_workers/higher_skilled/general/index.shtml
Does anyone have experience of getting a positive LMIA, with a wage below the prevailing in Ontario ($21), but above the entry level for their profession??
LMIA states:
Wages, Working Conditions and Occupations
Employers applying for a labour market impact assessment (LMIA) must pay the TFW:
at a minimum, the posted prevailing wage for the occupation and work location where the TFW will be employed; OR
a wage that is within the same wage range that they are paying their current employees working in the same occupation and same work location, if this range is higher than the prevailing wage.
At the same time though, they also say:
Cap on Low-wage category Positions
offering a wage to a TFW tEmployers hat is below the provincial/territorial median hourly wage will be subject to a maximum 10% cap on the proportion of low-wage TFWs. The cap will be phased in over the next 2 years to provide employers who use the Program with time to transition to a Canadian workforce.
Employers that have a low-wage TFW workforce will be:
limited to 30% or frozen at their current level, whichever is lower;
reduced to 20% beginning July 1, 2015; and
further reduced to 10% on July 1, 2016.
The 10% cap is the maximum percentage of low-wage TFWs that an employer will be allowed to have at a work site, as of July 2016.
Both are from the following page:
http://www.esdc.gc.ca/eng/jobs/foreign_workers/higher_skilled/general/index.shtml