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The role and regulation of private, for-profit employment agencies in the British Columbia labour market and the recruitment of temporary foreign workers

My thesis examines the role and regulation of private, for-profit employment agencies in the British Columbia labour market with respect to the recruitment of temporary foreign workers. In it, I reviewed the historical origins of employment agency legislation in Canada. I go on to describe Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program in connection with the transfer of federal immigration authority to the provinces. I also present a case study demonstrating how temporary foreign workers are recruited for the Live-in Caregiver Program in British Columbia, and use the study as a basis for comparing British Columbia’s employment agency legislation with the agency licensing regimes in the other Western Provinces. I conclude that Manitoba’s recent Worker Recruitment and Protection Act frames a best practice model for the protection of foreign workers during the recruitment process, and I encourage other provinces like British Columbia to develop and legislatively frame a similar set of best practices. / Graduate

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/3479
Date18 August 2011
CreatorsParrott, Daniel
ContributorsFudge, Judy, Matwychuk, Margo Lyn
Source SetsUniversity of Victoria
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
RightsAvailable to the World Wide Web

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