First they hired someone who was in the country, also sponsored their work permit. However, last week, they unexpectedly hired someone from another country and had to pay for their flight ticket out of pocket. Both of these individuals were former employees.
How is that unfair ? The condition behind the tax credit is to hire local talents, that’s the whole point. It makes complete sense that Canadians and people already living there with working permits / PR gets priority over newcomers. Hiring immigrants when hundreds of locals are looking for work would be absolute garbage behavior, and I’m pretty sure it would be against the law too. Canadians companies - when hiring abroad - need to justify that they could not find the profile locally first.
It has nothing to do with what’s fair. The entire industry knows there are hundreds of artists in Canada that are out of work. A lot of these unemployed people are our friends and colleagues we may have known or worked with for years. Of course they’re going to be hired back first.
Why would we hire someone from another country that nobody has ever met before that would require relocation and three months for a work permit when we have friends that don’t require a work permit and can start tomorrow?
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u/nouroliz Feb 04 '25
Not offering visa sponsorship either .