New Employer Immigration Compliance Obligations Effective September 26, 2022

The Government of Canada recently passed legislation to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, which will be effective on September 26, 2022. Some of these amendments expand existing program policies and will enhance the protection of foreign workers by setting new employer requirements and conditions and improving the ability to hold employers accountable for non-compliance with immigration laws.

Background

With the growing labour shortage across Canada, employers are turning to foreign workers more and more in an effort to fill record-high level of job vacancies in numerous sectors across the country. Since April of 2022, the Government of Canada has implemented a number of facilitative measures to various immigration programs to help employers bring in more foreign workers to meet their operational needs and help alleviate the sustained labour shortages. Following the implementation of these facilitative measures, the government has now