Immigration myths
#1
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Immigration myths
1) Buying a house will make you more attractive to employers ...
... utter nonsense ... you'll just burn money on a property that could eventually be out of your budget
2) Take the job on low money now and they'll give you a huge payrise later ...
... only if you work for the Fairy Godmother ... you run the risk of being laid off when you ask for that payrise
Any others?
... utter nonsense ... you'll just burn money on a property that could eventually be out of your budget
2) Take the job on low money now and they'll give you a huge payrise later ...
... only if you work for the Fairy Godmother ... you run the risk of being laid off when you ask for that payrise
Any others?
#2
Re: Immigration myths
Canadian winters are painful.
True they are a lot longer but I actually find them a lot more painless than UK winters. Give me the clear blue skies and the snow over the grey ones with drizzle and rain any day.
True they are a lot longer but I actually find them a lot more painless than UK winters. Give me the clear blue skies and the snow over the grey ones with drizzle and rain any day.
#3
Re: Immigration myths
Originally Posted by Iginla
Canadian winters are painful.
True they are a lot longer but I actually find them a lot more painless than UK winters. Give me the clear blue skies and the snow over the grey ones with drizzle and rain any day.
True they are a lot longer but I actually find them a lot more painless than UK winters. Give me the clear blue skies and the snow over the grey ones with drizzle and rain any day.
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Re: Immigration myths
Originally Posted by Glaswegian
1) Buying a house will make you more attractive to employers ...
... utter nonsense ... you'll just burn money on a property that could eventually be out of your budget
... utter nonsense ... you'll just burn money on a property that could eventually be out of your budget
2) Take the job on low money now and they'll give you a huge payrise later ...
... only if you work for the Fairy Godmother ... you run the risk of being laid off when you ask for that payrise
Any others?
... only if you work for the Fairy Godmother ... you run the risk of being laid off when you ask for that payrise
Any others?
Here's myth #3: Canadian employers will be utterly impressed and totally blown away by qualifications and experience obtained in Europe.
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Re: Immigration myths
Originally Posted by oceanMDX
Here's myth #3: Canadian employers will be utterly impressed and totally blown away by qualifications and experience obtained in Europe.
Myth #4 Legal protection for canadian employees and workers rights are as strong in Canada as they are in the UK.
The reality is you can be fired at any time without warning, with no explanation. "Temporary" lay offs are unfortunately pretty common too.
Last edited by iaink; Oct 31st 2004 at 7:59 pm.
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Re: Immigration myths
Originally Posted by iaink
The reality is you can be fired at any time without warning, with no explanation. "Temporary" lay offs are unfortunately pretty common too.
Last edited by oceanMDX; Oct 31st 2004 at 9:47 pm.
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Re: Immigration myths
So tell me - how do things differ in the UK? I always hear about how things are better but I'd be interested in how they are better.
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Re: Immigration myths
Originally Posted by lizwil98
So tell me - how do things differ in the UK? I always hear about how things are better but I'd be interested in how they are better.
#10
Re: Immigration myths
Originally Posted by Glaswegian
You daren't fire anyone in the UK ... that's why UK businesses carry quite so much dead weight.
It dosen't work and you can't fire it.
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Originally Posted by lizwil98
So tell me - how do things differ in the UK? I always hear about how things are better but I'd be interested in how they are better.
Employees have more rights under the law in the UK, and the canadian labour code is laughably weak. Only recently has it become a criminal offence for managers to continually overlook requests for safety action to be taken, before this years the worst that could happen was a fine, now at least some prison time is on the cards. Took a lot of dead miners out East to get that far!
#12
Re: Immigration myths
Originally Posted by oceanMDX
Of course, that's not the case if you are a member of a union. If you are not in a union, yes, an employer can fire you, but doing that can have fairly severe consequences for the employer if done improperly. The employer had better not violate human rights (or they will run in trouble with human rights commissions). If you are a manager (depending on the province) and are fired without "just cause" (eg. criminal activity) the employer may have to pay a year of severance. If none of these cases applies to you, then sure, an employer can give you a few weeks notice (or a few weeks pay in lieu of that) and tell you "you're fired". Then of course, you can sue without warning for improper dismissal. Whether you have a case, well that depends.
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Re: Immigration myths
Originally Posted by iaink
Fortunatly the company paid in excess of the legal minimuim compensation of one weeks pay for each year served!!! Also fortunately I walked back into my old job, so not too much harm done financially, but your confidendce takes a beating when it happens out of the blue.
Your confidence in the Canadian way of doing things really takes a beating when you're on the sharp end of something like that.
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Re: Immigration myths
Originally Posted by prodigyking
Myth # 5
Women are more promiscuous in Canada.
Women are more promiscuous in Canada.
How about?
Myth #6
Our neighbours to the south, the citizens of the US aren't troublemakers and have the best interests of the global community at heart.