Minimum salary for a positive LMIA?

[atazure]

Hi,

Does anybody know if there is a minimum salary, that an employee should have, to apply for an LMIA? Or as long as you're making above minimum wage, you can apply, just you might have a smaller chance of getting a positive LMIA?

Cheers,
Agnes

 

[purplesnow]

you need to be earning at least the median salary for your position. look up job bank for your job, see what the salary being offered is.

 

[evanstp9]

you need to be earning at least the median salary for your position. look up job bank for your job, see what the salary being offered is.

That is incorrect!

See below:

Transition to a Canadian Workforce
Employers must engage in activities to transition to a Canadian workforce and reduce their reliance on TFWs. The specific requirements an employer must follow are determined by the wage being offered for the position, in relation to the provincial/territorial median hourly wage, based on Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey (2013).

Employers offering a wage to a TFW that is:

BELOW the provincial/territorial median hourly wage will be subject to a cap on low-wage positions;
AT or ABOVE the provincial/territorial median hourly wage will be required to complete a Transition Plan for high-wage positions.

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.


The above is from: http://www.esdc.gc.ca/eng/jobs/foreign_workers/higher_skilled/general/index.shtml

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.

 

[purplesnow]

uh huh. see an LMIA application is assessed against a lot of factors. wage being one of them. if the wage offered is lower than the median for the position that could be considered a reason they were unable to get a Canadian and therefore the application could be rejected on those grounds.
Also, employers aren't allowed to pay foreign workers less than Canadians. that's illegal and the reason everything kicked off in Alberta last year with the TFW's being paid less than they should have.

 

[evanstp9]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twu-aFTukoQ

They examine the prevailing wage for any occupation against the provincial prevailing wage, then you are either low wage or high wage.

That has nothing to do with the wage an employer offers to a TFW.

If high wage, then employer needs transition plan, if low wage, cap is enforced.


This is one of the most misunderstood things in LMIA, myself being confused as well.

 

[atazure]

Thanks guys I think I understand a bit better. So essentially, the wage affects the employer more than the employee.