{"id":7063,"date":"2024-01-25T19:43:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T00:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/shannon-houston-gave-an-interview-to-canadian-hr-reporter\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T12:18:42","slug":"shannon-houston-gave-an-interview-to-canadian-hr-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/en\/insights\/uncategorized\/shannon-houston-gave-an-interview-to-canadian-hr-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Houston gave an interview to Canadian HR reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Houston gave an interview to Canadian HR reporter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those employers that hire employees through the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program, the government late last year legislated some \u201chousekeeping\u201d changes that will have to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, employers hiring workers for set terms (between six and 18 months) established the wage rate for that term and that was generally it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now, [the federal government] is saying that every year, the employer is required to go and review the website, and make sure that the wage rate they\u2019re paying is still above the prevailing wage rate because the government updates that every fall,\u201d says Shannon Houston, partner and immigration lawyer at Miller Thomson in Calgary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrreporter.com\/focus-areas\/employment-law\/housekeeping-changes-coming-to-tfw-program\/383094\"><strong>To read the full article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Houston gave an interview to Canadian HR reporter: For those employers that hire employees through the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program, the government late last year legislated some \u201chousekeeping\u201d changes that will have to be considered. 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