Quebec announces additional $2.1 million to help companies recruit temporary foreign workers

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The province of Quebec is pledging an extra $2.1 million to help employers in their efforts to recruit temporary foreign staff.

The Minister of Labour, Employment and Social commonness and Minister liable for the Mauricie region, Jean Boulet, declared the funding on Oct sixteen.

Boulet said they will accustom the extra funds reimburse up to fifty percent of eligible enlisting expenses, while not extraordinary $1,200.

Eligible expenses embody the hiring of enlisting specialists like lawyers or immigration consultants recognized by the Ministry of Immigration, Francization and Integration (MIFI).

The Quebec government known as the live “a targeted response to a necessity expressed by businesses” associated aforesaid the extra funding enhances an earlier pledge of around $20 million for international enlisting efforts created in August.

Quebec is facing widespread labour shortages and recent cuts to the amount of permanent residents admitted to the province have contributed to a growing number of employers recruiting temporary foreign staff instead.

It is calculable that almost one,750 firms may gain advantage from this monetary help over consequent 2 years.

“This new live improves the services offered to Quebec firms that square measure within the method of recruiting foreign staff,” Boulet aforesaid in a very statement. “In the context of labour scarceness, this support comes at the proper time.”

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The Quebec Employers Council (QEC), that welcome the funding announcement echoed that sentiment.

“Although international hiring is AN possibility for employers to beat the challenges of labour shortage, it may be expensive and sophisticated,” Yves-Thomas Dorval, President and Chief officer of the QEC, same in a very French announcement. “The live proclaimed these days, with a budget of $2.1 million, will definitely be appreciated by employers.”

“For several little and medium-sized corporations, doing the international achievement method themselves or collaborating in a very government mission to recruit candidates abroad is just too burdensome a task that has to essentially be entrusted to a 3rd party.”

According to Statistics Canada’s Job Vacancy and Wage Survey, the quantity of vacant positions stood at 114,215 for Quebec corporations within the half-moon of 2019, a rise of twenty one,365 (+23%) compared to constant quarter in 2018.

Over the past year, the quantity of vacant positions has plateaued between 114,000 and a hundred and twenty,000 vacancies.

In the half-moon of 2019, Quebec had the second-highest job pct among the provinces (3.1%), sooner than Ontario (3.0%). British Columbia has the very best job pct in Canada, at 4.4 per cent.

Four Quebec regions have job vacancy growth rates that square measure among the ten quickest growing in Canada. Quebec’s Mauricie region had the very best rate of growth within the variety of vacant positions in Canada (+89%), followed by the Laurentians, Laval and Chaudière-Appalaches regions.

The metropolis region had the most important variety of vacant positions in Quebec, at 38,515.

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