Canada Immigrant Job Issues

 

 

Discrimination Report Card

 

 


Due to the lack of evaluations/statistics on Systemic Racism and discrimination from the immigrants' point of view, Canadaimmigrants is going to make an open report on these issues. Therefore, if you have experienced one of the following incidents, we invite you to make it public on this site,  please contact us. We certainly appreciate your insightful input.
 

Types of incidents to report
 

An immigration-serving association:


1. Told you to downgrade your credentials
2. Made you wait for too long to receive any job related services, so their services were useless.
3. Asked you to volunteer for their association in a position below your skills level
4. Didn't understand your credentials
5. (Their) job counsellors had poor communication and professional skills
6. Other (Please specify briefly)
 

A company:


1. Never responded to your job application and their job opportunity was still advertised
2. Told you that they preferred someone with Canadian credentials
3. Told you that you didn't have Canadian experience
4. Never promoted you to a higher position, but promoted other person with less education and  less seniority instead
5. Paid you less even when you had the same responsibilities and performance as other workers in similar positions
6. After you graduated from a Canadian school -with higher grades than your classmates, a company hired one of your Canadian-born ex-classmates instead
7. Other (Please specify briefly)
 

A school:


1. Made you go through the entire application process, and suddenly put another requirement that wasn't at the beginning of that process
2. Made subtle favoritism to some Canadian-born students, which influenced in your/their grades
3. Other (Please specify briefly)
 

A Professional Association & Regulatory Bodies:


1. Made you go through the entire application process, and suddenly put another requirement that wasn't at the beginning of that process
2. Made you wait too long to process your application
3. Didn't understand your credentials
4. Other (Please specify briefly)

 

Systemic Racism and Xenophobia Report Card

Immigrant-serving Association or HRDC Office

Name Association Location Report
Georgina HRDC Richmond, BC Waiting for too long, so their job services were useless.
Georgina International Center of Winnipeg Winnipeg, MB 1. Waiting for too long, so their job services were useless.
2. Job counsellor with poor professional skills.
Matt HRDC Richmond, BC Extremely unprofessional/unhelpful HRDC Counsellor
Didn't appear qualified for her position
Claire HRDC Ontario They suddenly said that I was overqualified for a training program
Steven Office Workers Career Centre 1802,365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, ON M4W 3L4 They denied entry to a program
Steven HRDC Toronto They denied entry to a program due to lack of Canadian experience

Company

Name Company Location Report
Moni Ultramar Montreal, QC Biased Hiring Practices
Jan Sasktel Regina, SK Discrimination
Maria Catholic School Board Calgary, AB Biased Hiring Practices
Tatius SUBWAY® 5225 Yonge St. Toronto Unfair and discriminatory work practices
Bonnie http://www.barapprentice.com Ottawa Biased Hiring Practices
Luis Wendy's Etobicoke Biased Hiring Practices
C. M. Collège Universitaire of Saint Boniface Winnipeg Biased Hiring Practices
C. M. Great West Life Manitoba Never responded to your job application and their job opportunity was still advertised

School

Name School Location Report
Stella McGill University Montreal, QC Biased decision
Matt Vancouver College 5400 Cartier Street. Vancouver Dragged process nearly a year of a sponsored program
Claudette University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Never responded to your job application and their job opportunity was still advertised
       

Professional Association or Regulatory Body

Name Association Location Report
Frank International Qualifications Assessment Services (IQAS)

Edmonton, AB

Didn't understand  credentials, so they devaluated them
       

Canadian Immigration Law Firms and Employment Agencies

Name

Firm or Agency

Location

Report

G. Ramirez Benchetrit and Associates Mexico City False Advertisement used to get money from people
Jairo Caledonian Offshore San Francisco, CA Took money illegally  for services they never delivered
W.E. Entrée Canada (ON) United Arab Emirates Took money illegally  for services they never delivered

 

 

 

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