{"id":81908,"date":"2020-12-04T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/quebec-updates-salary-guide-for-employers-hiring-temporary-foreign-workers"},"modified":"2021-05-10T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T21:32:21","slug":"quebec-updates-salary-guide-for-employers-hiring-temporary-foreign-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/quebec-updates-salary-guide-for-employers-hiring-temporary-foreign-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec Updates Salary Guide For Employers Hiring Temporary Foreign Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quebec has updated its salary guide for employers hiring temporary foreign workers for many entry-level jobs.<\/p>\n

Called the \u00c9dition 2020 du Guide des salaires par professions pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s par intervalle, selon les quartiles au Qu\u00e9bec<\/span><\/a> , it provides salary ranges for entry-level, mid-level, and senior positions for many jobs categories, with effect from December 1.<\/p>\n

The new guide replaces the edition published in 2018 and includes higher salaries for many of the job categories listed.<\/p>\n

A lower-level IT manager\u2019s salary, for example, has been bumped up to $2 per hour, to $38 from $36 per hour. Medical lab technicians are also seeing a salary increase \u2013 this one of $4 per hour \u2013 from $22 to $26 per hour. Social workers too are being bumped up from $22 to $24 per hour under the new guide.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s certainly not all the jobs that are now paying more. Many of the positions at the mid-level and higher are staying the same in the new guide. Other positions are showing no difference at all.<\/p>\n

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There are even a few positions where the latest guide indicates employers can now pay less. The starting wage for entry-level office workers, for example, has gone down by $2 per hour, from $16 to $14 per hour.<\/p>\n

Quebec\u2019s Ministry of Immigration, Francisation and Integration (MIFI), uses the 2016 National Occupational Classification (NOC) to determine the category for any job offer made under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program<\/span><\/a>. The NOC codes are then used to check the appropriate salary range under the new guide unless the compensation is covered by a decree by the government or a collective agreement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Any temporary job offers received by the province\u2019s immigration can be refused if the salary offered for the job is based on the 2018 salary guide or otherwise fails to comply with the latest salary guide.<\/p>\n

The province uses the salary guide to ensure temporary foreign workers are paid a fair salary comparable to what a Canadian worker would earn for the same job and level of experience. The guide only takes into account the guaranteed wage, excluding any expected overtime, tips, profit sharing, bonuses, commissions and their forms of remuneration.<\/p>\n

Immigration officials decide in which category a temporary foreign worker should be placed within any given job category based on his or her experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The entry or lower level is for those workers with two years or less of experience. A mid-level employee is considered to be one with between two and nine years of experience. And a senior-level employee is one with more than nine years of experience.<\/p>\n

Last month, Quebec announced it was going to make it easier for employers to find highly-skilled immigrants to fill jobs with the launch of a new employer portal.<\/p>\n

Nadine Girault, Quebec\u2019s immigration minister, unveiled the province\u2019s latest tool to streamline its Quebec Skilled Worker program, Arrima, in early November.<\/p>\n

\u201cFaced as we are with the challenges posed by labour shortages in several sectors of our economy, immigration is incontrovertibly the right approach,\u201d Girault said in French. \u201cIt needs to be easily and quickly accessible to meet the needs of Quebec businesses who are struggling to fill jobs with local candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new employer portal is available to businesses and organizations in Quebec\u2019s corporate registry and makes it easier for them to:<\/p>\n