The Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) is a work permit category that is almost a certain pathway to permanent residence and finally citizenship and therefore commands very high demand amongst various Canadian immigration streams.
LMIA, as a process, determines the effect of offers of employment to foreign workers on the Canadian labor market and local workers.
Whenever a Canadian employer intends to offer a job to a foreign worker, it needs to justify that no Canadian citizen or PR qualifies for the job vacancy and the required skills, education and experience are so unique that they can be only be fulfilled by a foreign worker.
Every Canadian employer must procure positive LMIA document (formerly known as Labour Market Opinion – LMO) before they proceed with a job offer to a potential foreign hire.
The Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) is responsible for the process of assessing and verifying an offer of employment. This is primarily done to ensure that there is no negative impact on the Canadian labor market. Obtaining a positive LMIA has higher chances if it is located in major Canadian cities and specialized positions with high salary have brighter chances of a positive LMIA.
The wages paid to the temporary foreign workers with respect to LMIA applications are benchmarked against the median wage paid in that province or territory according to the latest figures.
If the wages paid are at or above the benchmark median wage the job is classified as high-wage.
Otherwise, if the wages offered are below the benchmark, they are classified as low-wage.
The requirements for Labour Market Impact Assessment applications are markedly different depending on how much the temporary foreign workers are going to be paid. We have advised many of our business clients understand the complexities of these applications and have also represented them in numerous LMIA applications.
We have successfully helped our clients expedite their LMIAs within ESDC’s 10 business day service period that applies to the following cases:
High-Wage LMIA applications for certain Highest-Demand occupations e.g. major infrastructure and natural resource extraction projects
High-Wage LMIA applications where the offered wage is within the top 10% of wages earned by Canadian employees in a given province or territory .
Any LMIA application for a candidate applying under Express Entry
Any LMIA application with a job duration of upto 120 days
In order to hire temporary foreign workers to Canada under the LMIA, the employers must pay a processing fee of CAD$1,000 for each application for Labour Market Impact Assessment.
The employer launching the application for LMIA has to advertise the job across Canada using Canada Job Bank in addition to at least two other advertising platforms for a minimum duration of a month.
The employers must ensure that the focus of the advertising is on the under-represented groups like First Nations or persons with disabilities.
The employers applying for LMIA must acknowledge that they can neither cut the hours of Canadian workers working in the same positions as the temporary foreign worker nor they can lay-off any Canadian worker.
We have helped many of our clients secure LMIA jobs in Canada. Explore our simple process below:
Most of the key industries in Canada rely heavily on logistic support and transportation. Therefore, truck drivers are in high demand in almost every province, making this one of the best LMIA jobs to go after.
Post Covid world has opened the need for more online platforms as much as for specialized tech professionals, and it will only increase in the years to come as the world moves towards digitalization. Pathways such as the Global Talent Stream allow for expediting work permit processing for specialized professionals.
With animal production, horticulture, aquaculture, and grain generating over 2.3 million jobs, the agricultural sector is one of the key high revenue generation sectors of Canada. With the booming industry and labor shortages, there is a constant need for experienced farm workers and supervisors.
With more individuals over 65 years of age than under 15 years, it is also estimated that more than 20% of Canadians would be over the retirement age in another decade. This has opened up more opportunities for care providers at home and children.
If the company has secured a positive LMIA then it can put forward a job offer to a foreign worker.
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