What is LMIA Based Work Permits?
Typically, foreign workers and employers must go through a two-step process in order to receive a Canadian work permit. First, the applicant must submit an application to ESDC for a Labor Market Impact Assessment, followed by a second application to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) for the actual work permit. The LMIA is issued by ESDC who, after considering numerous protective labor market factors, authorizes the Canadian employer to hire a foreign worker.
In June 2014, it was announced that work permits for foreign workers who require an LMIA will only be granted for a period of 1 year for all low-wage occupations.
How to Get a Labour Market Impact (LMIA) Assessment?
The Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) formerly known as “LMO” is a document that an employer in Canada will need to get before hiring a foreign worker in most cases. A positive LMIA is also known as a “confirmation letter” will show that there is a need for a foreign worker to fill the job. It will also show that no Canadian worker or permanent resident is available to do the job.
Once an employer gets the LMIA, the worker can apply for a work permit.
Needing a Labour Market Impact Assessment depends on the program you are hiring through. You will also need to determine if you are hiring high-wage workers, low-wage workers, workers through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, or workers through the Agricultural Stream.
Description About High Wage & Low Wage workers
and their Hourly payments.
High wage workers:
Bosses looking to employ high-wage laborers should submit progress plans alongside their LMIA application to guarantee that they are finding a way ways to decrease their dependence on brief unfamiliar specialists over the long haul. Confirmation of interest in abilities preparing or recruiting Canadian disciples are instances of how businesses can demonstrate this. Then again, businesses can exhibit how they are helping their high-gifted brief unfamiliar worker(s) in becoming Canadian super durable occupants. Assuming the business is picked for an investigation, or on the other hand assuming they apply to restore their LMIA, they will be needed to give an account of the advancement of the change plan that they have submitted.
The change plans are intended to guarantee that businesses looking for unfamiliar laborers are satisfying the motivation behind the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). This involves that they are involving the TFWP as a last and restricted retreat to address quick work needs on a brief premise when qualified Canadians are not free, guaranteeing that Canadians are allowed the main opportunity at accessible positions.
Long wage workers:
Bosses looking to employ low-wage laborers don’t have to submit progress plans with their Labor Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) application. They should, in any case, adhere to an alternate arrangement of rules. To confine admittance to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), while guaranteeing that Canadians are viewed as first all the time for accessible positions, the Government of Canada has acquainted a cap with limiting the quantity of low-wage impermanent unfamiliar laborers that a business can utilize. Besides, certain low-wage occupations might be denied for LMIA handling. Managers with at least 10 representativesapplying for another LMIA is dependent upon a cap of 10% on the extent of their labor force that can comprise of low-wage brief unfamiliar specialists. Businesses offering compensation that is underneath the common/regional middle time-based compensation must:
- pay for full circle transportation for the brief unfamiliar laborer;
- guarantee reasonable lodging is accessible;
- pay for private health care coverage until laborers are qualified for commonplace wellbeing inclusion;
- register the transitory unfamiliar laborer with the common/regional work environment security board; and
- give a business representative agreement.
The TFWP utilizes the most recent Labor Force Survey results for the joblessness rates in locales across Canada. These rates figure out what locales are qualified for businesses to submit Labor Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) for low-wage/lower gifted occupations in the Accommodation and Food Services area and the Retail Trade area.
LMIA applications for these areas won’t be handled in financial districts where the joblessness rate is 6% or higher. Given its extraordinary work economic situations, and as mentioned by the Government of the Northwest Territories, applications in these areas for positions situated in Yellowknife will be acknowledged for handling.