Immigration.ca - Canada Immigration News - April 2011
The government of Saskatchewan is launching a new website designed to help employers in the province find and hire foreign labour.
�This new section [of the government�s website] is going to help us reduce duplication,� said Rob Norris, Saskatchewan�s Minister of Advanced Education, Employment and Immigration. �[It�s] going to help employers increase efficiency (and) it�s going to make it easier for employees to connect with community services and qualify employment.�
The province, which has experienced massive growth in recent years, hopes to welcome 12,000 new arrivals in 2011 � a large portion of which, according to Norris, should be skilled workers coming through the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP).
�Over the course of the next five, seven, 10 years, the number of jobs opening up in Saskatchewan will range between 75,000 and 90,000 jobs,� said Norris. �When we ramp those projections up, it doesn�t take much to actually see those numbers go in excess of 100,000.�
Employers, too, say that the labour challenges are more pressing than ever and that it can be extremely daunting to navigate government �red tape� to import needed labour.
�The [SINP] program reduces a fair amount of that [red tape],|� said Jim Semple, vice president of Brandt Engineered Products, an employer that regularly recruits and hires foreign workers. �When you need someone, you need them in so many weeks, not two or three years.�
In fact, the website is the result of consultations between employers and the provincial government, who have been trying to simplify the process to maximize efficiency.
Source: Regina Leader-Post
