MT❯iplus Edition: Maintaining Compliance: Things To Know When Employing Foreign Workers In Canada And Key Recent Updates

As of January 1, 2024 employers are required to annually review the wages of their temporary foreign workers to ensure that they remain within the required prevailing wage for the associated NOC code and location under which their employment is classified. Prevailing wages are generally updated in November of each year, and the expectation is that, if required, salaries will be adjusted to the updated prevailing wage by the following January 1^st (ie. within one to two months).

Although this requirement will go into affect on a go-forward basis, starting with applications submitted to Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) as of January 1, 2024, this undertaking is not necessarily a new one. For several years, when signing a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) form, an employer committed to reviewing the conditions of the employee's work on at least an annual basis. This new requirement is essentially the same, however the requirement is more structured,