{"id":4996,"date":"2026-11-09T12:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T20:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T20:54:19","slug":"finally-good-news-for-employers-and-low-wage-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/finally-good-news-for-employers-and-low-wage-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, good news for employers and low-wage workers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b><u>Restoring efficiency and predictability for businesses<br \/>\n<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Effective November 6, 2026, changes to the Low-wage Stream of the Program include:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) applications submitted on or after this date will have a maximum duration of up to two years, an increase from the current one-year duration;<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Currently, LMIA applications are not processed in Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) with an unemployment rate of 6% or higher, with exceptions for priority sectors that include healthcare, construction, and food processing. On November 6, 2026, early childhood educators will be added to the list of exceptions to further respond to ongoing labour needs across the country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><a title=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/employment-social-development\/news\/2026\/11\/government-of-canada-announces-targeted-reforms-to-the-temporary-foreign-worker-program-to-respond-to-labour-market-needs.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/employment-social-development\/news\/2026\/11\/government-of-canada-announces-targeted-reforms-to-the-temporary-foreign-worker-program-to-respond-to-labour-market-needs.html\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Source.<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"Text_text__D8yqX Text_size-h33__aprTw Text_weight-bold__CBWtB Text_color-greyscale-shadow__RZoEL spacing_noMargin__F5u9R\">\ud83d\udcf8Pavel Danilyuk<\/h5>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restoring efficiency and predictability for businesses Effective November 6, 2026, changes to the Low-wage Stream of the Program include: \u00a0Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) applications submitted on or after this date will have a maximum duration of up to two years, an increase from the current one-year duration; Currently, LMIA applications are not processed in<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[488,541,349,42,104,203],"tags":[614,615],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-employers","category-employment","category-immigration","category-ircc","category-lmia","tag-finally-good-news-for-employers-and-low-wage-workers","tag-restoring-efficiency-and-predictability-for-businesses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}