Manitoba's provincial government announced plans to regulate agencies that recruit temporary workers from other countries, through the introduction of provincial license and making necessary for such agencies to be members in good standing of either a law society in Canada or the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC, www.csic-scci.ca).
These plans, if approved, will amend the Provincial Employment Services Act, which governs the activities of employment service agencies and hadn't been amended since 1987. The goals of the revised legislation would include: (a) ensuring young people, especially young women and girls, are adequately protected from potential exploitation; and (b) protecting temporary foreign workers who are vulnerable to exploitation by requiring all third-party recruiters to be licensed by the province and be members in good standing of a law society in Canada or the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants.
This legislation, which would be the first of its kind in Canada, will also look to help employers get access to "legitimate and reliable" recruitment choices.
Almost 4,500 temporary foreign workers were employed in Manitoba in January this year, up from about 1,500 in 1997.
"We will continue to work with our federal (government) partners to better understand the arrival, location and numbers of temporary workers as well as identify, license and regulate agencies involved in the recruitment," Labor Minister Nancy Allan said in a release.
The Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants applauds the Minister for her vision and leadership to better regulate immigration recruiters and modeling agencies.
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