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Crops

Duration limit lifted from foreign worker program

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Canadian farm groups are among the sectors hailing Ottawa’s decision to axe the cumulative duration rule, or “four-in, four-out” policy, which stood to sideline temporary foreign workers from the Canadian market. The federal government announced last Tuesday (Dec. 13) it would lift the restriction, effective immediately. The cumulative duration rule had been in place in
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: A shaky foundation

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It’s often said employees are the bedrock of any business. Without them wheels don’t turn, work isn’t done, products aren’t created and customers aren’t served. If that really is so, and there’s a small library of management manuals to back that claim, agriculture in Canada is in real trouble. A joint study from the Conference
Workers bone and cut beef at a meat-packing plant in Toronto.
Beef cattle, Hogs, News

Farm and agri-food employers hail call for foreign worker reform

A new parliamentary report backs their recommendations to fix critical shortage of workers, 
but will the federal government act on them?

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Farm employers and food processors are hoping a new report will spur Ottawa to revamp its temporary foreign worker program. “There are a lot of things in the report that are very positive for ag and agri-food,” said Mark Chambers, senior production manager with Sunterra Farms and co-chair of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Labour Task
workers cutting beef at a meat-packing plant
Crops

Temporary foreign worker program gets reprieve

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Employers who have been in the program the longest are being exempted from further 
reductions in the proportion of their workforce that aren’t citizens

Meat, fruit and vegetable processors are welcoming a recent announcement that reductions in the temporary foreign workers programs have been frozen for now. Employment Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk recently said employers registered in the Temporary Foreign Worker Programs (TFWP) prior to June 2014 will be able to continue to use up to 20 per cent non-citizens
Livestock, News

Worker rules stifle agri-food, Eichler tells Senate committee

The new provincial agriculture minister was speaking to the Senate agriculture committee

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Manitoba’s new agriculture minister says federal rules on temporary and seasonal workers are harming the agri-food sector. Ralph Eichler told the Senate agriculture committee there’s a shortage of skilled labour and regulatory changes are at least partially causing that. “Changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program have had significant impacts on the ability of Manitoba
Kharl Cabatingan came to Canada eight years ago as a temporary foreign worker, arriving in Neepawa in 2009 to work at Springhill Farms. He brought his wife Ruby Ann and daughter Annikha to live in Neepawa in 2011.
Local news

New life in Canada ‘a dream come true,’ couple says

The Cabatingans are one of hundreds of young families now calling 
Neepawa and surrounding municipalities home

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Kharl Cabatingan will have his own “settler story” to tell his grandchilden one day. He and wife Ruby Ann became Canadian citizens last year. The couple, both born in the Philippines, has lived in Neepawa not quite all of their young daughter Annikha’s life. She was born shortly after Kharl emigrated in 2008, initially working
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Livestock

Foreign worker break for seafood sector a ‘one-time’ deal

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Winnipeg | Reuters –– Canada’s move to loosen restrictions on hiring foreign workers for East Coast seafood plants was a one-time decision, and the government is not convinced other sectors need similar measures, the country’s employment minister said Thursday. The Liberal government eased restrictions under its foreign worker program recently for Atlantic seafood processors, allowing
workers cutting beef at a meat-packing plant
Livestock, National news

Meat industry needs outside help urgently

The shortage of labour is becoming critical for processors

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Labour shortages in Canada’s meat sector are cutting into profitability and resulting in more livestock being sent south for processing, James Law, executive director of the Canadian Meat Council told the Senate agriculture committee last month. “The greatest threat to the future of Canada’s livestock and meat sector at the moment is the severe shortage

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