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Key recommendations Increase legislation in Alberta for temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to ensure safety in the Prairie region, such as changing conditions to make the work permit applicable to more than one job in the same sector, and work permits for spouses of TFWs Create a monitoring program through funding fr...
Community organizations NA Location Alberta Key recommendations Need for systemic changes to immigration policy to address the transition from TFW status to living without status in Canada Need to address the issue of human trafficking for the purposes of labour in Canada Creating better avenues for recourse...
Gaps identified NA Location NA Key recommendations NA Key findings Immigrant wage gap is largest in the private sector. The public-sector wage gap is also larger for immigrants that for the Canadian-born. Wage gap is associated with discrimination against immigrant workers Key populations Immigrant workers Co...
Location Northern Alberta Community organizations NA Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Key populations Undocumented workers Key recommendations This report makes 27 recommendations to address a number of systemic and practical changes required at the fede...
Community organizations: n/a Integration timeline Newcomers (not defined) Key populations Foreign-trained physicians who are immigrants that now live in Calgary Location Calgary Alberta Future research/gaps identified: n/a Key findings Immigrant and refugee healthcare professionals face signif...
Location Alberta Key populations Temporary foreign workers Community organizations NA Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Key recommendations Policy solutions that address precarious status of low-skilled TFWs Gaps identified Few pathways to permanent res...
Location Fort McMurray, Alberta Key recommendations OHS education targeting caregivers including a clear explanation of caregiver rights; Education for employers of caregivers about OHS; Training for government OHS inspectors and frontline staff re: antiracist and human rights education; Adding caregivers to the OHS...
Location Edmonton, Alberta; Calgary, Alberta Community organizations NA Integration timeline At what point during the integration process the study was conducted? NA Key populations Temporary foreign workers Gaps identified OHS is a complaint-driven system that is often not accessible/available to precarious worke...
Key recommendations (1) Increase in affordable non-market housing by provincial and municipal levels of government; (2) Putting in place a rent supplement program so the refugees can afford private renal market housing; (3) Federal government waiving transportation and medical loans, so it doesn’t compromise thei...
Location Alberta Key recommendations More research is needed about the topic Key populations workers (immigrant and domestic) in Alberta Key findings workers who move across the country to work seem to be at risk of the higher work-related injuries because of the nature of work they perform (i.e. oil and gas in...
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