Reference no: EM132340718
Immigration Law: Economic Classes Assignment - Labour Market Impact Assessment
Purpose of Assignment: To complete a Labour Market Impact Assessment Application for a Temporary Foreign Worker.
The Task: You are an RCIC (Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant). You have been retained by Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, located at 205 Humber College Boulevard, Toronto, for the purpose of preparing a Labour Market Impact Assessment Application. Your task is to identify and complete the appropriate application form. Humber, of course, is authorizing and appointing you as their representative and agent for this LMIA application. You will be paid by Humber upon completion and submission of the form.
The contact person at Humber is Dr. Vinnie Bumba, the acting director of recruitment in the Faculty of Business. Humber wants to hire a temporary foreign worker for the position of Student Recruitment Officer (SRO) in the Business School. The NOC is either 0421 or 1223. The salary for the position will be $198,000 per year. It is not a unionized position, and the successful candidate will be classified as "administration equivalent". The basic work week will be 40 hours.
As this is an annual salary position, there is no opportunity for overtime pay. The remuneration also includes a number of benefits (similar to those available to Humber's unionized employees), such as health and dental insurance, short term disability, pension plan, and four weeks' vacation. As the SRO will have to communicate with students and schools in other parts of the world, the working hours will be flexible in recognition of different time zones.
The position is for a term of three years, and the expected start date is January 1, 2020. Dr. Bumba is of the view that a three-year period should be sufficient to enable Humber to determine whether the undertaking is successful. A candidate has not yet been identified, though an international head-hunter engaged by Humber is confident that the right person will be found in the very near future.
Dr. Bumba has informed you that he has met the minimum advertising requirements in Canada but has been unable to find a Canadian (citizen or permanent resident) candidate to fill the position. Six applications/resumes were received. Of those six, four candidates were interviewed. A fifth candidate withdrew her application. Of those who were interviewed, one candidate was offered the job but turned it down. In the other cases, the applicants were found to be lacking in the requisite marketing and recruitment experience; therefore, they were either not invited to interview for the position or were not offered the job after an interview. This is a unique, newly-created position. The successful candidate will not be replacing anyone currently in Humber's employ, and this hiring will not result in any job losses or reduction in work hours for any current employees. In fact, it will be necessary to hire an assistant to perform clerical and secretarial duties for the successful candidate.
The SRO, who must be proficient in English, will be responsible for developing student recruitment strategies that will see Humber's Business School increase its growth potential. Knowledge of recruitment planning and implementation practices, as well as marketing tools, will be necessary. Other duties will be similar to many of those prescribed by the ESDC for the relevant NOC. It is imperative that the successful candidate be creative, and the candidate should possess a university degree or college diploma in a field related to student recruitment or marketing, or completion of a professional development program in a related discipline. Of more import, the successful candidate will be assessed on the basis of a proven track record over a period of at least ten years.
Humber College has almost 30,000 full-time and over 50,000 continuing education students, including 3,000 students from over 100 countries. In addition, there are over 3,000 employees, including faculty, support staff and administration. The college's gross revenue in 2018 exceeded $450 Million. In the past year, 54 Humber employees have been laid off, all in lower wage maintenance or parking attendant positions, and all of whom were Canadians.
Humber does not receive any funding from the ESDC, and there is no labour dispute in progress at Humber at the present time. Part of the LMIA application form is a transition plan for which Humber is not seeking an exemption. A transition plan is a plan to transition the position to a Canadian employee over the duration of the foreign worker's employment. As it is unknown whether the new position will be continued after three years, it is unlikely that Humber would agree to an activity that would facilitate the foreign worker's permanent residency. Completing this section of the application requires some thought and creativity on your part. Where you are asked to "Select Recruitment and Training Activities," you must select only three such activities (notwithstanding that the form provides for five activities to be selected).
You are not required to produce any supporting documentation for the application. All you are required to do is to complete all of the pages of the LMIA application form for the temporary foreign worker.
Additional Information: You may create any other necessary information (i.e., addresses). If you're not sure, ask me.