Recognized Employer Pilot is Canada new immigration program. And, it will soon launch under the Temporary Foreign Worker program. This announcement came through as the government of Canada is working out ways to tackle labour shortages. This program is set to launch in September this year and will be implemented in two stages.
The program will open up numerous opportunities to find work in Canada and so if you are interested, why not read on?
About Canada’s New Immigration Program
The new immigration program that Canada made an announcement about will be launched in September of this year. This new program, Recognized Employer Pilot, will be under the bigger spectrum of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. As mentioned before, the program will immensely benefit in healing the chronic labour shortages Canada has been facing since forever.
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The basic need for this program arised from the focus to reduce the administrative burden for repeat TFWP’s complying employers. To say it in simple terms, those employers who have been complying with all the rules and regulations of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program will find it now easier to hire international workers.
Benefits of Recognized Employer Pilot (REP)
This program will provide easy access to LMIAs to recognized employers. Moreover, the LMIA will be valid for around 36 months which in turn is good news for the employee too. Also, the LMIA will be provided in a simplified version to the employer.
Do you know what an LMIA is? Well, first of all, its Labour Market Impact Assessment.
Who needs an LMIA? A foreign worker when applying for a work permit needs to show that they have been invited to Canada to work and that they have a valid job offer. Moreover, they need to show that the job they would be working in Canada cannot be occupied by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident. Well, how can a foreign worker show all of that? Simple, they don’t. It’s actually their Canadian employer that does all the work.
The Canadian employer needs to prove that the reason why they are hiring an international worker is because the job position cannot be filled by a citizen or permanent resident of Canada. The employer also needs to show that by hiring a worker from overseas, there will be no negative impacts on the labour market. And how is it proved? Simple, they get an LMIA.
After the implementation of this program, employers will be able to plan their staff recruitment strategies in a better way so they won’t be wasting time applying for LMIAs over the course of 36 months.
But that’s not all. Those recognized employers will be able to get a Job Bank designation which will further build their authority and validity in the eyes of foreign workers. The designation will show their recognized status on Job Bank, the federal government’s job hunting site.
Who is Eligible?
Employers who have at least 3 positive LMIAs in the last 5 years, and that too in the same occupation as listed in the Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS) data, will be eligible.
These employers will receive an expedited assessment process because of their positive history with the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. This basically means that if you want to receive a much faster assessment process so you could hire employees sooner, you need to offer best recruitment practices.
When will REP be Implemented?
The Recognized Employer Pilot will come out in two phases:
- Stage one is set to begin this September, and Stage two in January of 2024.
- In the first stage, employers in the Primary Agriculture Streams are eligible to apply.
- While in the second stage, employers from all sorts of industries can apply.
- REP will not accept employer applications after September, 2024.
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