New Live in Caregiver Advertising Requirements! - January 1, 2009

As of January 1, 2009, new advertising requirements must be met by agencies or families who seek to hire a foreign live-in Caregiver to work in Canada.

The HRSDC has eliminated all Occupation Under Pressure lists previously utilized by employers to facilitate the temporary entry of foreign workers into Canada. Prior to this date, employers seeking to hire foreign workers whose occupations were listed as being “in demand”, benefited from minimal or no advertising requirements for the provision of an HRSDC approval. Following January 1, 2009, advertising for foreign national employees that would have fallen into this beneficial exception has become mandatory and significantly more involved. This change significantly impacts families seeking live-in Caregivers and live-in Caregiver agencies across Canada.

Minimum Recruitment Requirements

For Canadian families in need of a live-in Caregiver in Canada, these changes mean significantly greater requirements. Service Canada now requires that the following minimum recruitment requirements be met before it will approve an application for a Labor Market Opinion for Live-in Caregivers:

• Advertise on the national Job Bank; and
• Conduct similar recruitment activities consistent with the practice within the occupation in the three (3) months prior to applying for a LMO; and
• Demonstrate reasonable ongoing recruitment efforts which include advertising directly to communities that traditionally face barriers to employment.

As families seeking to employ live-in Caregivers are often subjected to time constraints, these recent changes, which add a minimum of three (3) months to the application process, are of significant importance. We invite you to contact us to secure further information regarding your live-in Caregiver and other immigration needs.
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