Abhishek Dhawan: SMART

SMART Technologies Dept: SMART Technologies announced on Tuesday that it was laying off up to 25 percent of its staff by March 2013, including Abhishek Dhawan who was hired from India in August to test software for the company, according to CBC. Calgary immigration lawyer Raj Sharma says those temporary foreign workers have to go through what he calls a convoluted process in order to remain in Canada and only have a few months to do so and temporary foreign workers, who were laid off at Smart Technologies in Calgary, could be forced out of the country. "I'm fairly new here. I just completed my probation. But now, my work permit was tied to the employer so I could only work for SMART," said Dhawan. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.