{"id":11699,"date":"2016-09-26T20:35:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T20:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/fr\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2016-09-26T20:35:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T20:35:20","slug":"temporary-foreign-workers-forced-workforce-4-4-rule-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/temporary-foreign-workers-forced-workforce-4-4-rule-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Foreign Workers Forced Out of Workforce by &lsquo;4 in and 4 out&rsquo; Rule (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a01 April 2015, a change to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program\u00a0 could see some migrant workers refused work permits. The change should be scrapped because it would force an exodus of foreign workers\u00a0from\u00a0B.C., says an\u00a0advocate.<\/p>\n<p>On April 1, 2011, the federal government introduced legislation known as the \u00ab\u00a0four in and four out\u00a0\u00bb rule, limiting how long some temporary foreign workers could work in Canada to four years. The first temporary foreign workers to whom the rule applies\u00a0could reach their four-year\u00a0limit on April\u00a01,\u00a02015.<\/p>\n<p>After that, they must\u00a0wait another four years, either\u00a0outside Canada\u00a0or\u00a0in Canada as a visitor or student, before they can be granted a fresh work permit. Previously, temporary foreign workers who came to Canada under the low-skilled stream could reapply to continue working for their Canadian employer.<\/p>\n<p>Citizenship and Immigration Canada has made an exception for\u00a0TFWs approaching their four-year limit in Alberta, offering a bridging permit\u00a0if they applied for permanent residency under the Provincial Nominee Program by July\u00a01,\u00a02014. Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney has said Ottawa is willing to extend similar measures to other provinces.<\/p>\n<p>CIC lists several situations in which workers may be exempt from the four year rule including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Management and professional workers, including spouses and dependants<\/li>\n<li>Workers exempt due to international agreements, Canadian interests, self-support, humanitarian reasons<\/li>\n<li>Workers doing jobs which do not require\u00a0a work permit<\/li>\n<li>Permanent resident applicants who have received a positive selection decision or approval in principle<\/li>\n<li>Provincial nominees\u00a0applying for an employer-specific work permit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Attorney Colin Singer Commentary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The effect of this policy will substantially add to the numbers of undocumented immigrants in Canada.\u00a0 There are currently approximately 150,000-200,000 undocumented illegal immigrants in Canada.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a01 April 2015, a change to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program\u00a0 could see some migrant workers refused work permits. The change should be scrapped because it would force an exodus of foreign workers\u00a0from\u00a0B.C., says an\u00a0advocate. On April 1, 2011, the federal government introduced legislation known as the \u00ab\u00a0four in and four out\u00a0\u00bb rule, limiting how&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,4895],"tags":[3354,4905,68311,67966,68489,70008,69098],"class_list":["post-11699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lactualite-canadienne","category-mars-2015","tag-canada-fr","tag-cic-fr","tag-foreign-workers-fr","tag-pnp-fr","tag-temporary-foreign-worker-fr","tag-tfw-fr","tag-work-permits-fr","category-4859","category-4895","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}