They are requiring B-737NG type ratings though, which we all know is wrong. That is just a lame excuse to hire already type-rated foreigners and avoid having to pay for training Canadians. It is also a trick that TUI-owned Sunwing Airlines is using to help out other TUI-owned companies during their low European season. This is worse than companies who make their pilots sign training bonds. This scheme avoids hiring Canadians altogether and ask HRSDC to authorize the hiring of foreigners instead of Canadians, and HRSDC obliges......
If you are Canadian Citizen or a Canadian Resident and would like to be considered for a B-737 first officer job at Sunwing, send your Resume and a cover letter to Sunwing but also copy a letter and your resume to:
The Honourable Diane Finley
Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development
Place du Portage
Phase IV, 14th Floor
140 Promenade du Portage
Mail Stop: 1401
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0J9
Telephone: 819-994-2482
Fax: 819-994-0448
E-Mail: diane.finley@hrsdc-rhdsc.gc.ca
She is the one who will authorize the German, British, Polish and other foreign pilots to come and work in Canada on the basis that there is a shortage of qualified pilots here. We all know this to be false.
Here are the hiring steps for hiring foreigners, according to this cut-and-paste from Mrs Finley's own HRSDC Website:
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/workplaceski ... kers.shtml
One of the rules is that there must be a labour shortage. The other is that the employer (Sunwing) must have made reasonable efforts to hire or train Canadians.Hiring Steps:
In almost all cases, foreign workers must have a valid work permit to work in Canada. When hiring a foreign worker, you, the employer must generally :
1. Submit an application for a Labour Market Opinion (LMO) to the Service Canada Centre responsible for processing applications.
Please note that you can apply for an (LMO) before the temporary foreign worker has been identified.
Before confirming a job offer, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada(HRSDC)/Service Canada considers whether :
The job offer is genuine;
The wages and working conditions are comparable to those offered to Canadians working in the occupation;
Employers conducted reasonable efforts to hire or train Canadians for the job;
The foreign worker is filling a labour shortage;
The employment of the foreign worker will directly create new job opportunities or help retain jobs for Canadians;
The foreign worker will transfer new skills and knowledge to Canadians; and
The hiring of the foreign worker will not affect a labour disputes or the employment of any Canadian worker involved in such a dispute.
But here it is that the hiring campaign to hire foreigners has begun in Europe before any effort has been made to find qualified Canadians for the job. You see where this is going.......
So write to The Honourable Diane Finley and be sure to let her know that you are an experienced and qualified airline pilot who can easily learn to fly a B737 after a short type-rating course of a few weeks and that you want the Sunwing pilot job opportunities to go to Canadians instead of being given away by HRSDC to the foreigners.
It would probably also help out if you sent a copy of the same letter and resume to your local MP.
Sunwing uses a lack of type rating as an excuse to hire foreigners. But if that argument were valid, Air Canada, Jazz, Westjet, Air Transat and all the others, who presently do not require its applicants to be already type-rated, could also go see The Honourable Diane Finley and use the same lame excuse to hire foreigners instead of Canadians.
So the good news is that Sunwing is hiring for next winter and that job belongs to you!
