POEA warns OFWs on certain jobs in Canada

Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac yesterday warned overseas job applicants
against accepting offers of employment in the food services sector in Canada.

Cacdac said the Minister of Employment and Social Development Canada
(ESDC) imposed a moratorium on the Food Services Sector's access to the
Temporary Foreign Worker Program, in response to allegations that the
program was being abused in order to displace Canadian workers.

Technically, with the moratorium, the ESDC will not process any new or
pending application for Labor Market Opinion (LMO) and no work permit for
temporary foreign workers will be approved, thereby rendering any job offered
by the recruiter that was affected by the freeze non-existent.

“To avoid illegal recruitment, job applicants should reject offers of employment
in pizza, hotdog, or other fast food franchise counters in Canada”, Cacdac said.

Cacdac said occupations such as food counter attendants, kitchen helpers,
restaurant and food service managers, food service supervisors, food and
beverage servers, cashiers, chefs, cooks, bakers, sales, marketing and
advertising managers, executive housekeepers, cleaning supervisors, butchers,
meat cutters and fishmongers, sales representatives, retail salespersons and sales
clerks, hosts/hostesses, bartenders, janitors, and caretakers, among others,
in establishments primarily engaged in preparing meals, snacks and beverages,
to customer orders for immediate consumption on and off the premises, were
covered by the moratorium.

The suspension does not include food service activities that occur within
establishments such as hotels, civic and social associations, amusement and
recreation parks, and theatres, but leased food-service locations in facilities such
as hotels, shopping malls, airports and department stores are included.

The suspension does not include food service activities that occur within
establishments such as hotels, civic and social associations, amusement and
recreation parks, and theatres, but leased food-service locations in facilities such
as hotels, shopping malls, airports and department stores are included.

The suspension does not include food service activities that occur within
establishments such as hotels, civic and social associations, amusement and
recreation parks, and theatres, but leased food-service locations in facilities such
as hotels, shopping malls, airports and department stores are included.

He said the moratorium will remain in effect until the completion of the on-going Canadian government review of the Temporary Foreign Worker
Program.












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