My husband is a safety director for a large American Owned company. He has been trying to hire a safety manager for one of his jobsites since last March. The LMO's that he has applied for have been for US workers that have experience and work for the same company he does, however they keep getting denied stating there are eligible Canadian workers, when in fact the people that are applying for the position are straight out of school with no construction experience. And.... it isn't due to a salary issue because his company pays very well and has great benefits.
Without knowing the details, it looks like there is no reason for them to turn down those LMOs, but there is obviously something in the application that they don't like. Duration perhaps?
I know a few people who have had positive LMOs very recently, so it's not like they are turning all applications down without valid reasons.
As an aside, if the applicants already work for the same company, has the company looked into getting intra-company transfers instead? (they don't require LMO that way).
We had half a dozen people transfer like that in the last 6 months or so.
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