Highlights:
- LCP Caregivers will no longer need to undergo a second medical when applying for Permanent Resident Status.
- LCP caregivers who work overtime will be allowed to apply for Permanent Resident Status sooner – after 3900 hours of work, the equivalent of a standard work week for 2 years.
- Increased time LCP caregivers are allowed to complete the 24 months of work required from 3 years to 4 years.
The proposed regulations also require employers of Live-In Caregivers to pay for :
- Travel costs of Caregiver to Canada
- Medical insurance coverage until LCP caregivers become eligible for provincial health coverage
- Workplace safety insurance and any recruiting fees owed to third parties.
For full details :
News release : http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Citizenship-And-Immigration-Canada-1089983.html
Highlights :
- Ban on fees charged to LCP Caregivers by recruiters, either directly or indirectly, or by anyone on behalf of a recruiter.
- Preventing employers from recovering, directly or indirectly, recruitment and placement costs from live-in caregivers.
- Prohibiting the practice of taking a caregiver’s personal documents such as a passport and a work permit.
- Prohibiting reprisals against caregivers exercising their rights under the legislation.
- Allowing live-in caregivers up to 3 1/2 years to make a complaint.
For full details go to : http://www.news.ontario.ca/mol/en/2009/12/helping-live-in-caregivers.html
REPRINTED FROM THE TORONTO STAR (link to original)
By Dale Brazao (Staff Reporter)
A foreign caregiver brought to Canada with a job offer from a “ghost employer” has been awarded $10,000 in damages in what is believed to be the first court victory against a nanny recruiter.
Marivic Perlas Rivera told a small claims court judge she paid $2,800 to Winlorfely Caregiver Providers “to find me a legal employer in Canada as a live-in caregiver.”
But upon arrival from Hong Kong last November, Rivera was told her would-be employer, Wayne Smith, whom she has never met or even spoken to, was no longer interested in her services and she was “released on arrival.” (more…)
