Construction sector wants to reduce use of temporary foreign workers

Program compliance is strong, but the sector prefers domestic workers

A recent report from Employment and Social Development Canada found a 94% compliance rate among employers participating in the Temporary Foreign Workers program.

Of the three examples given of egregious non-compliance, it singled out “an employer in the construction industry” – identified through compliance documents as Green West Building Maintenance Ltd. of Burnaby – as having been fined $53,000 and banned from hiring temporary foreign workers until February 2028 “for failing to provide adequate wages and working conditions.”

All told, companies in B.C.’s building sector accounted for 13 of the 116 cases of non-compliance, but industry associations say that doesn’t paint the full picture. “It’s about employers who have been, up until recently, facing significant shortages of skilled workers and saying somehow we’ve got to find them,” Gardner said.

The creation of a BC immigration stream which would invite skilled tradespeople to apply for permanent residency and grant them entry without tying them to a specific job offer would also help, Atchison said.

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