The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak of
the COVID-19 virus to be an "increasingly complex global heath
challenge" and it has officially classified the situation to
be a global pandemic.
Many workplaces in Canada are, in fact, internationally
connected and the labour scarcity at the present time means that
many employers are looking outside Canada for foreign workers with
specialized skill sets. Employers who have an internationally
mobile workforce or who are in the process of bringing foreign
workers into Canada now have to take into account for travel
restrictions are being imposed, changes to usual immigration
procedures and that little-used powers to detain or quarantine
persons crossing borders may be employed. This is happening in
Canada, and indeed, in other countries where fears of
person-to-person contagion prompt changes to habitual rules
concerning permissible international mobility of individuals.
