Proposed amendments would grant broad powers to government officials for compliance investigations
The Temporary Foreign Worker Program has been in the limelight for much of 2013. It attempts to strike a balance between the protection of the local labour force and the needs of employers to hire qualified workers not readily available in the labour market, but concern over the size of the program has become a politically charged topic pitting employers against labour unions. Now the federal government has entered the fray, introducing new regulations that give sweeping powers to officials administering the program.
