I am a mainly seasonal employer who hired a foreign worker on a 1-year temporary work permit during the past summer.
Although she has an architecture degree and has worked in her profession oversees, she worked for us in an office coordinator/sales position. She was exceptional though, and has been given work as a project coordinator this winter within the same company. She will resume her office-coordinator work again this summer and, were it not for the coming expiration of her 1-year work permit this June, could alternate between these two seasonal positions for the foreseeable future.
It's win-win; she enjoys the work and residing in Canada, and, in working two positions, saves us from having to lay off a winter Canadian in the summer and a summer Canadian in the winter. It would be difficult to find a Canadian to do both these tasks as competently and enthusiatically as she does.
I would like to fill out an LMO on her behalf but I worry that the two halves of her work, when viewed separately, may seem like work that anyone could do. Is there any benefit in taking this 2-in-1 approach or might it confuse the issue and do more harm than good? Would her position be better described as that of a simple year-round office coordinator?
Thanks
Although she has an architecture degree and has worked in her profession oversees, she worked for us in an office coordinator/sales position. She was exceptional though, and has been given work as a project coordinator this winter within the same company. She will resume her office-coordinator work again this summer and, were it not for the coming expiration of her 1-year work permit this June, could alternate between these two seasonal positions for the foreseeable future.
It's win-win; she enjoys the work and residing in Canada, and, in working two positions, saves us from having to lay off a winter Canadian in the summer and a summer Canadian in the winter. It would be difficult to find a Canadian to do both these tasks as competently and enthusiatically as she does.
I would like to fill out an LMO on her behalf but I worry that the two halves of her work, when viewed separately, may seem like work that anyone could do. Is there any benefit in taking this 2-in-1 approach or might it confuse the issue and do more harm than good? Would her position be better described as that of a simple year-round office coordinator?
Thanks