Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), the entity responsible for setting various requirements concerning the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) has indicated that it will be updating the figures for ‘Median Wage’ during the week of November 14. Median Wage is the minimum threshold which employers are required to offer foreign workers when seeking to employ them through a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA – the TFWP process to secure approval for employers to hire foreign workers). Wages vary based on occupation type, and geographic region. Median wage information can be found by searching at https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/trend-analysis/search-wages. (Median wage can also impact some non-LMIA work permit categories.)
Employers who are advertising as part of the required pre-LMIA process, or who have an LMIA application in process, or indeed, who are currently employing an LMIA-based foreign worker, will be required to update the wage offered/paid, as the case may be, accordingly.
The information in this article is for general purposes only, and not intended as legal advice for any particular situation.