Unemployment Rate: Foreign Workers

foreign workers: In 2006, there were 150,000 temporary foreign workers employed in Canada. By December 2012, that number had more than doubled to 340,000, according to CBC. The temporary foreign worker program has come under scrutiny in the last four months, since reported that professional IT workers were being fired from their jobs at RBC so the employer could bring in temporary foreign workers and Despite an unemployment rate that spiked in 2009 and remains high, the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada has more than doubled over the last six years, according to the Conference Board of Canada. The growth in the number of foreign workers continued throughout the 2009 recession, when the unemployment rate peaked at 8.6 per cent. In June of this year, unemployment stood at 7.1 per cent, though joblessness among young workers was stuck around 14.1 per cent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.