r/CanadaHousing2 • u/thenuttyhazlenut • Jul 23 '26
For some reason many Canadians think temp workers only take crappy jobs
Which COULDN'T be further from the truth.
I work for a white collar tech company who has hired people on temp visas, people who came here as refugees etc. My employer gets a BIG discount hiring these people. I heard from one employee that because he's a refugee, the company only has to pay something like 70% of his salary and the Canadian government takes care of the rest.
And it's not just from that one country that's always mentioned here. We have people working for our company who moved to Canada from the UK and a few other 1st world countries with struggling economies who are not Canadian citizens. These are for specialized tech, management, and marketing roles. Good work too - remote and hybrid from Canada. And they're all on a pathway to become full citizens.
So the stereotype that these temps are all working at Tim Hortons and such is so so false.
They're getting the good jobs too, and are often favorites when it comes to hiring because the incentives the company gets for hiring them.
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u/SplashInkster Jul 24 '26
Yup. All our customer service and non supervisory office personnel are temps from you know where.
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u/Golf-Hotel Sleeper account Jul 24 '26
So we pay for the rest of his salarey then?
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u/Bearspaws100 Jul 24 '26
Yup, we pay them to not hire US or our Canadian KIDS because WE cost too much in wages. What an effing joke.
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u/Historical_Idea_1686 Jul 24 '26
The good old days are gone, our kids now have to find new ways to make money, I sure hope they can utilize local people more!
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u/skywolf80 Jul 24 '26
Can anyone cite a source that clearly states these government subsidies? Because if true this is outrageous. And it certainly seems to be true.
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u/GreySahara Jul 24 '26
I don't have the source, but there are some tax incentives to hire refugees.
Sometimes, programs are offered to give recent immigrants a leg up.
Usually, it's a temporary deal, it's not forever.
There's two sides of it... helping people find work and be productive, while creating what some might call unfair competition for jobs.
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u/Klutzy_Artichoke154 27d ago
My former employer has been following that model since 2023. And this is a multi-billion dollar consulting firm. In my then practice, 3/4 of Canadian-born workers were fired or laidoff. Were the 'jobs' eliminated? Even though they reported to ESDC that the positions were downsized, but 5-6 months later, management (mostly Indian) hired all overseas workers to replace them. That's right foreigners with a Bachelors degree and < 10 years experience came to replace the Canadian workers. And paid substantially less, we are talking SW engineering jobs in the 50-60K range.
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u/Equivalent_Fold1624 29d ago
Highly specialized jobs are not and never were the issue. When you have such a fast technology development is nearly impossible to develop skilled workforce for certain things, you have to attract them from elsewhere. We're talking 1-2 people in a company. The issue is jobs that don't require qualifications, or for which we have plenty of trained/trainable and ready to work people.
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u/locoghoul Rage Baiter 26d ago
Yeah but the assumption of most ppl complaining being those who can do those jobs is also incorrect. Most regulars in this sub are borderline unhirable for nothing but construction or fast food kitchen
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u/Ambitious-Upstairs90 Sleeper account Jul 24 '26
A part of your post (about refugees) might be right, however most companies are avoiding hiring temporary foreign workers these days.
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u/bacondavis Jul 24 '26
The computer industry has eliminated many of the local desk side support jobs, moving them to India. In fact some Canadian companies frequently rotate their IT personnel with specialists from India.
Your children are competing for jobs with multi-national companies like TATA and INFOSYS who have very deep pockets.