Experts discuss important changes to Foreign Workers Program
Canadian HR Reporter is hosting a live webinar to examine how changes to the Foreign Workers Program will affect employers.
The webinar, on June 22 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. EDT, will provide insights designed to assist employers in preparing for imminent changes to the program and will identify key strategies to ensure the expeditious processing of foreign workers.
Topics include:
• the cancellation of the Information Technology Worker program and HR strategies for protecting foreign IT workers currently in Canada and for bringing IT talent from abroad after September 2010
• new rules and procedures for recruiting foreign talent under the amended Foreign Worker Guidelines.
• the recent amendments to the Immigration Regulations - the new and tougher liabilities facing employers in Canada that fail to comply with representations made to Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.
The webinar will be led by immigration lawyers Howard Greenberg and Gabriela Ramo.
Greenberg is a Certified Specialist in Immigration Law and past Chair of the Citizenship and Immigration Law Specialization Committee of the Law Society of Upper Canada, responsible for certifying lawyers in this practice field. He is also a part-time professor of corporate immigration advocacy at the University of Ottawa's faculty of law.
Ramo has extensive experience in all aspects of Canadian immigration and citizenship law. Her practice is devoted to representing major multinational clients in the movement of business people across international borders, with a particular emphasis on the movement of foreign workers.
She has appeared before various parliamentary and senate committees and made representations on behalf of the Canadian Bar Association on immigration and citizenship issues, and has participated on various lobbying campaigns.
The webinar will be of interest to HR professionals, employment lawyers, consultants and senior executives.
For more information or to register for The Skills Shortage: Important Changes to the Foreign Workers Program Webinar, click here.
