LMO Exempt Jobs: Contradictions in CIC Policies or My Misunderstanding?

[flake]

Hello Everyone,

I would like to draw the attention of yours to some particular categories of jobs.

Some jobs are in great demand. Canada is suffering skill shortage in those jobs and desperately needs to fill those positions in, so much so that those jobs are exempt from LMO (labour market opinions), as the following link indicates. Please excuse my sarcasm.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/special-tech.asp

For the convenience of those who are reading the post, here I am pasting the list of those categories.

Senior Animation Effects Editor (NOC 9990.1)
Embedded Systems Software Designer (NOC 9990.2)
MIS Software Designer (NOC 9990.3)
Multimedia Software Developer (NOC 9990.4)
Software Developer—Services (NOC 9990.5)
Software Products Developer (NOC 9990.6)
Telecommunications Software Designer (NOC 9990.7)

Now, here is what makes me puzzled.

1. NOC format is quite strange. It includes a dot!
2. If those software positions are indeed positions that the Gov't critically needs to fill in, how come their NOC numbers are not even in those 38 golden categories? Why is only 0213 included among 38?
3. If the above information is out-of-date and no longer valid and no longer part of the active CIC policies, then how come the web page still remains? Why didn't they remove the contents of the web page?

Please express your opinions, folks.

Regards,
flake

 

[PMM]

Hi

Hello Everyone,

I would like to draw the attention of yours to some particular categories of jobs.

Some jobs are in great demand. Canada is suffering skill shortage in those jobs and desperately needs to fill those positions in, so much so that those jobs are exempt from LMO (labour market opinions), as the following link indicates. Please excuse my sarcasm.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/special-tech.asp

For the convenience of those who are reading the post, here I am pasting the list of those categories.

Senior Animation Effects Editor (NOC 9990.1)
Embedded Systems Software Designer (NOC 9990.2)
MIS Software Designer (NOC 9990.3)
Multimedia Software Developer (NOC 9990.4)
Software Developer—Services (NOC 9990.5)
Software Products Developer (NOC 9990.6)
Telecommunications Software Designer (NOC 9990.7)

Now, here is what makes me puzzled.

1. NOC format is quite strange. It includes a dot!
2. If those software positions are indeed positions that the Gov't critically needs to fill in, how come their NOC numbers are not even in those 38 golden categories? Why is only 0213 included among 38?
3. If the above information is out-of-date and no longer valid and no longer part of the active CIC policies, then how come the web page still remains? Why didn't they remove the contents of the web page?

Please express your opinions, folks.

Regards,
flake

1. It is a pilot program and those are synthetic codes and don't correspond to the NOC codes and it is operational.
2. They are only exempt from LMOs it is a sop for Microsoft, Nortel et al because they run out of H1Bs in the US quite quickly so the Microsoft opens branch plants in Canada to have them work on projects that they can't get H1Bs for in the US.

PMM

 

[flake]

Hi PMM. You gave examples of Microsoft and Nortel. But there are plenty of other software companies in Canada. Are you saying in general software jobs in Canada are not LMO exempt? CIC could have then specified some company names like Microsoft, Nortel, as having privileges to hire people without going through the pain of LMO. I don't see any such information on www.cic.gc.ca. It does not mention any specific companies, but specific job types.

 

[PMM]

Hi

Hi PMM. You gave examples of Microsoft and Nortel. But there are plenty of other software companies in Canada. Are you saying in general software jobs in Canada are not LMO exempt? CIC could have then specified some company names like Microsoft, Nortel, as having privileges to hire people without going through the pain of LMO. I don't see any such information on www.cic.gc.ca. It does not mention any specific companies, but specific job types.

What politician in his right mind would state that they enacted this regulation so that the IT companies that lobby us could get their workers into Canada without demonstrating a need through an LMO?

PMM

 

[BCguy]

Hi PMM. You gave examples of Microsoft and Nortel. But there are plenty of other software companies in Canada. Are you saying in general software jobs in Canada are not LMO exempt? CIC could have then specified some company names like Microsoft, Nortel, as having privileges to hire people without going through the pain of LMO. I don't see any such information on www.cic.gc.ca. It does not mention any specific companies, but specific job types.

PMM is correct those were concessions to Nortel and Microsoft Accenture which runs the IT Department of BC Hydro uses it to bring Filipinos and Indians for short term 6 month contracts to work on projects.Ditto for Microsoft in its Richmond Campus