The role and regulation of private, for-profit employment agencies in the British Columbia labour market and the recruitment of temporary foreign workers
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2011-08-18
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Parrott, Daniel
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My thesis examines the role and regulation of private, for-profit employment agencies in the British Columbia labour market with respect to the recruitment of temporary foreign workers. In it, I reviewed the historical origins of employment agency legislation in Canada. I go on to describe Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program in connection with the transfer of federal immigration authority to the provinces. I also present a case study demonstrating how temporary foreign workers are recruited for the Live-in Caregiver Program in British Columbia, and use the study as a basis for comparing British Columbia’s employment agency legislation with the agency licensing regimes in the other Western Provinces. I conclude that Manitoba’s recent Worker Recruitment and Protection Act frames a best practice model for the protection of foreign workers during the recruitment process, and I encourage other provinces like British Columbia to develop and legislatively frame a similar set of best practices.
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British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Temporary Foreign Workers, Employment Agencies, Employment Standards Legislation, Foreign Worker Recruitment, Law, Live-in Caregiver Program, Immigration Policy, Occupations requiring lower levels of formal training, Philippines, Canada, Employment Agencies Legislation