{"id":7215,"date":"2022-04-04T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altecglobal.wpenginepowered.com\/canada-relaxes-temporary-foreign-worker-program-rules-to-address-labour-shortages\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T20:12:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:12:54","slug":"canada-relaxes-temporary-foreign-worker-program-rules-to-address-labour-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/canada-relaxes-temporary-foreign-worker-program-rules-to-address-labour-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada relaxes temporary foreign worker program rules to address labour shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Canada has taken steps to make it easier for Canadian firms to hire foreign workers on a temporary basis. These actions, which were announced on April 4, are in reaction to a nationwide labour shortage. At the same time, Canada has a low unemployment rate and a large number of job openings.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bringing in temporary foreign workers to fill occupations where there are no Canadians available is one way to overcome labour shortages. According to a government press release, the modifications to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) are intended to assist Canada to develop its workforce.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There are five major changes coming for the TFWP.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">1. Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) will be valid for 18 months, up from nine.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">2. The maximum length of employment for High-Wage and Global Talent Stream employees will be increased from two to three years.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">3. The Seasonal Cap Exemption, which has been in effect since 2015, will be made permanent.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">4. Employers in industries with demonstrable labour shortages will be able to use the TFWP to hire up to 30% of their workers for low-wage positions for a year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">5. Finally, Canada will eliminate its existing policy of automatically rejecting LMIA applications for low-wage occupations in the lodging and food services and retail trade sectors in locations with a 6% or higher unemployment rate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2093 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tempwork.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" title=\"\"><\/div>\nIf you want to know more information about Canadian immigration, do not hesitate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicvisa.com\/en\/free-assessments\/\">\u9810\u7d04<\/a> \u9032\u884c\u5c08\u696d\u8aee\u8a62\uff0c\u5c0b\u627e\u6700\u9069\u5408\u60a8\u7684\u8def\u5f91\uff01\n\n<audio style=\"display: none;\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has taken steps to make it easier for Canadian firms to hire foreign workers on a temporary basis. These actions, which were announced on April 4, are in reaction to a nationwide labour shortage. At the same time, Canada has a low unemployment rate and a large number of job openings. Bringing in temporary [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tempwork-1.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tempwork-1.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"altecglobal","author_link":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/author\/altecglobal\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicvisa.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}