A province in Canada has temporarily closed its doors for Filipino workers who are looking to try their luck as temporary foreign workers.
The province of Alberta issued a two-year ban for temporary foreign workers, including overseas Filipino workers, in 29 high-skilled job categories due to sufficient number of qualified local workers.
“Alberta’s Employer Liaison Service provides enhanced recruitment support to companies looking for high-skilled workers to hire Alberta citizens rather than foreign workers,” a statement from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) reads.
The service, however, will not terminate contracts that have been issued prior to the program implementation on April 19.
Effective April 19, 2017, Alberta will halt hiring of expats in these job categories:
- 1. Human resources managers
- 2. Engineering managers
- 3. Purchasing agents and officers
- 4. Production logistics coordinators
- 5. Civil engineers
- 6. Mechanical engineers
- 7. Electrical and electronic engineers
- 8. Geological and mineral technologists and technicians
- 9. Civil engineering technologists and technicians
- 10. Industrial engineering and manufacturing technologists and technicians
- 11. Non-destructive testers and inspection technicians
- 12. Contractors and supervisors, electrical trades and telecommunications
- occupations
- 13. Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors
- 14 Welders and related machine operators
- 15 Electricians (except industrial and power system)
- 16 Industrial electricians
- 17 Plumbers
- 18 Carpenters
- 19 Contractors and supervisors, mechanic trades20. Contractors and supervisors, heavy equipment operator crews
- 20 Construction millwrights and industrial mechanics
- 21 Heavy-duty equipment mechanics
- 22 Motor vehicle body repairers
- 23 Transport truck drivers
- 24 Contractors and supervisors, oil and gas drilling and services
- 25 Oil and gas well drillers, servicers, testers and related workers
- 26 Oil and gas well drilling and related workers and services operators
- 27 Oil and gas drilling, servicing and related laborers
- 28 Petroleum, gas and chemical process operators
