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It is the policy of the Canadian Government to have opportunities in Canada madeavailable to Canadians and legal permanent residents before foreign workers areadmitted. The following guidelines must be followed:1. Managers are expected to make every reasonable effort to recruit and trainCanadian citizens locally and in other parts of Canada2. Where qualified workers are not available, Manager must make significant effortsto train or re-train to enable Canadian workers to qualifyEffort must be made to find CanadiansHiring Managers are responsible to make every reasonable effort to locate or trainCanadian citizens for vacant positions with GoodLife.________________________________________________________________________________Work PermitsIt is illegal to employ a non-Canadian citizen who does not have a valid work permit.________________________________________________________________________________Labour Market Opinions can only be completed for designated roles(If a non-Canadian citizen applies to a position without a work permit)If Canadian citizens are not available or cannot be trained, a Labour Market Opinion mustbe sent to Service Canada in order to hire a foreign worker.Labour Market Opinions can only be completed for the following roles:• Vice Presidents and Directors• Divisional Manager, Personal Training Regional Manager, Group Ex RegionalManager• Home Office roles that require College or University• General Manager• Fitness Manager• Assistant General Manager• Member Care ManagerLabour Market Opinions can only be filled out for the positions listed above if theyconsistently offer 30 hours per week and the individual must be willing to stay in Canadafor a minimum of 1 year.Please Note: Labour Market Opinions cannot be filled out and sent to Service Canada forany roles not listed above. This means that if a non-Canadian citizen is applying for aposition not listed above in the ‘designated roles’ they can’t proceed in the interviewprocess and GoodLife will not fill out a Labour Market Opinion.Before submitting an LMO application to Service Canada, hiring managers must ensurequalified Canadian citizens are not available. This requires the position to be advertised nvarious sites (Monster, GoodLife, HRDC etc) while allowing sufficient time for Canadiancitizens to apply and be considered for the job. The information contained in GoodLife’srecruitment effort must be sufficient to attract Canadian citizens and must be the same assubmitted on the application for a foreign worker.Suitably qualified Canadian citizens and permanent residents must be consideredfirst for all available work in Canada.Managers wanting to hire a non-Canadian citizen in one of the above designated roles willbe asked to describe in detail how they attempted to hire a Canadian as well as theirefforts to train a Canadian when filling out the Labour Market Opinion (LMO).The LMO process takes between 2-6 months and the non-Canadian citizen cannot workfor GoodLife while Service Canada is processing the LMO. If the LMO is approved, theforeign worker must still go to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) to apply for aConfidential and Proprietary Information of Goodlife Fitness Clubs | V14 July 2009 17