By Canadian Contractor staff
Ontario removing unfair work barriers for skilled newcomers
Canadian ContractorMay 29, 2023 – After introducing legislation that banned regulated professions from requiring Canadian work experience in more than 30 occupations, Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) are the first association to remove it from their application criteria.
Roughly 300,000 jobs continue to go unfilled across the province every day. At the same time, studies have shown only a quarter of internationally trained immigrants in Ontario work in the regulated professions they trained for. Currently, even if a newcomer has the skills and technical ability to pass their profession’s licensing exams, they may still be barred from registering in their profession without Canadian work experience.
Ontario is the first province in Canada to ban unfair or discriminatory Canadian work experience requirements to help newcomers work in the professions they trained for. In December 2023, all unfair requirements for Canadian experience will be automatically voided unless an exemption is granted by the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development for public health and safety.
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NOTE: ………….Ontario removing unfair work barriers for skilled newcomer……………….. means what the unfair work barriers were present in the Canada for the long time. And the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) must be actually punished for the creation and suppotring the barries. As a result of the really agly activity of the PEO I had to move away from Canada after 1000+ useless application for the engineering jobs. Shame on Canada.