Employer USA

American Cultural Experience ® offers employers in the United States an opportunity to internationalize their business by participating in a work exchange program. Whether you hire an eager university student from abroad for the winter or summer season, or participate in the training of a newly graduated, highly skilled professional, your business will benefit from the new, fresh ideas and exemplary work ethic of these ACE participants!
 

USA Work & Travel Program (J-1 Visa):

Participants work for up to 4 months during their university summer break; Participants arrive during winter and summer; No cost to the employer for this service.

Internship Training Program (J-1 Visa):

Participants train in your business for up to l8 months; All have experience or a university degree in the chosen field; No cost to the employer for this service; Highly motivated and eager to learn!

Hospitality Internship Training Program (J-1 Visa):

Highly motivated Hotel Management and Culinary graduates train in your hotel for up to l8 months; ACE offers participants from the top schools from around the world; No cost to the employer for this service.

International Staffing Services Program (H2B Visa):

Participants work during your peak season for up to l0 months; Your business must qualify with the Department of Labor and Immigration as a H2B employer (ACE assists you with all paperwork); employer is responsible for employment agency service fees, and legal fee reference petition process.

Employer if you need staffing assistance now, TES has H2B participants in the U.S.  available for placement now.

Canadian employer if you required immediate staffing assistance, and  have an approved LMO you can receive a worker within a couple weeks.

 For more information contact a representative at the contact information listed below.

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Employer Canada

Scope of Services

TES' satellite offices and/or recruiting partners abroad follow a strict recruiting and application process that includes but is not limited to criminal / civil police record check, and an up to date medical clearance in an effort to provide employers a quality employee, an employee that is motivated and ready for work.

Below is a listing of TES' services, for information on pricing please visit with a representative at the contact information listed below.

1.) Basic Service:  Basic service included but not limited to coordination of interview between applicant and employer, assisting applicant and employer with communication between each other until applicant received authorization for travel or arrives in country of employment. Assisting applicant with application process in applicant’s home country. Assistant applicant with preparation for visa interview, assisting applicant and employer with coordination of transportation.

2.) Standard Service:  Standard service included Basic Service, plus Pre-employment background check, police record check, and verification of references, previous employment, education and certificates and credentials.

3.) Premium Service: Premium service also includes Basic and Standard Services, plus preparing and forwarding necessary document for processing employer’s Labor Market Opinion with Canada Services.

Note: Applicant processing time after receipt of LMO can range from two weeks, and up to six months depending on country of application.

In some cases employer can receive new employees within one or two weeks after receipt of LMO.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any question or concern, maybe we can save you time and money.

 

Temporary Foreign Worker (TFWP)- For Employers -

Using employment agencies

If employers decide to use employment agencies to assist them in the activities of recruitment of foreign workers, they need to be aware of facts and provincial regulations related to this industry.

Do employment agencies have to be licensed to do business in Alberta?

Businesses are required to be licensed by Service Alberta regardless of where they are located if they help employers in Alberta find employees, help employees find work in Alberta or evaluate or test people for employers seeking employees. Under the Fair Trading Act (FTA), all businesses are required to have an Employment Agency Business Licence including employment or recruitment agencies.

Why does the province license employment agencies?

The province licenses employment agencies as a result of problems in the marketplace. Sometimes employment agencies are charging foreign workers a job placement fee but are failing to provide the promised jobs or failing to meet contractual requirements. The province introduced the legislation by establishing regulatory guidelines to prevent or reduce the potential for misrepresentation, fraud or exploitation of workers.

What are the rules on licensing employment agencies that are based in other provinces, but are recruiting workers for Alberta companies?

If the employment agency is acting on behalf of employers hiring for positions in the province of Alberta, the agency must be licensed under the Alberta Employment Agency Business Licensing Regulations, which follows the regulations of the Canadian Fair Trading Act.

How, if at all, do those rules vary if the company is recruiting temporary foreign workers overseas for an Alberta company?

The regulations apply to any employment agency securing employees for positions in Alberta. They must be licensed under the Alberta Employment Agency Business Licensing Regulations.

What fees can employment agencies charge workers?

An employment agency cannot directly or indirectly demand or charge a fee, reward or other compensation to a person seeking employment or information about employers seeking employees, or for securing employment or information about any employer. To do so is an offence and illegal under the Alberta Employment Agency Business Licensing Regulation.

Employment agencies may charge a fee for services provided, relating to the preparation of a resume, but the agency cannot require a person to purchase these services as a condition of the agency's job placement services. If the agency charges fees for a resume, these must be clearly indicated and visible in their business premises and in the contract with their client.

What fees can employment agencies charge the companies that they are recruiting for?

The regulation does not address the issue of fees or contractual requirements for the business clients of employment agencies. The fees are compatible with the common business practices in that industry.

How, if at all, are those fee-regulations different if an employment agency is recruiting temporary foreign workers abroad for an Alberta company?

The regulation applies to all situations in which an employment agency is securing persons for employment in Alberta, securing employment for persons in Alberta or evaluating or testing persons for employers where the individual is in Alberta or the position is in Alberta. In other words, it does not make any difference if the agency is recruiting workers abroad – the rules are the same – workers cannot be charged a placement fees!

One Alberta company representative told me that a few companies from Toronto have approached him, boasting that their claim to fame is that the company doesn't have to pay any fees. The worker pays everything. Is that allowed under the Fair Trading Act?

No! That is a completely false statement! Employment agencies CANNOT charge job placement fees to workers, regardless where they operate in Canada.

One Ontario company which is not licensed in Alberta, that recruited a group of Romanian Temporary Foreign Workers for three Edmonton area companies - told me that his legal counsel told him that since he does not have an office in Alberta, he does not have to be licensed here? Is that the case? Please explain.

If the company is securing employment for Albertans or securing employees for positions in Alberta, it is required to be licensed in Alberta - and must provide a business address in Alberta.

Out-of-province employment agencies must provide an Alberta address for a person who can act for the business, such as a lawyer.

He also said that because he registered his employment agency business federally, he can operate in any province? Is that true? Please explain.

There is no federal license registration of this nature as the licensing and registration of businesses is a provincial jurisdiction. He may be referring to a federal incorporation of his company. If that is the case, his company would also have to be registered provincially, in Alberta.

Incorporation does not provide the business with a license required to operate. The business would still be obligated to meet municipal or provincial licensing requirements.

The above TFWP information is copies from http://www.albertacanada.com/immigration/employers/employmentagencies.html

and is intended  for informational purpose only.