This type of advertisement is for showing that a proper effort has been made to find Canadian workers before opting for international workers.
The list below shows the job sectors that either do not need to advertise at all or have to do very little advertisement formalities. By avoiding the strict advertisement rules, the LMIA work permit processing will be quicker.
• Working Possessor of a business: this goes under the Owner Operator LMIA stream. a person who is the holder of 50.1% to 100% shares of a business is regarded as the owner of that business. In this case, advertising is not needed at all.
• Scholars: scholar is someone with at least a post-graduation certificate and he or she is currently a teacher or researcher of an institute located in Canada. Advertising formality is not needed for this type of professionals in case of 2nd or 3rd requests under LMIA In a situation of tenure-track.
• Show Business: Show business workers refer to actors, singers, disc jockeys, TV crew, directors, etc. If professionals under this category are employed for a very short time on a quick notification to work in a particular place, posting ads will not be necessary.
• Employing foreigners for non-Canadian companies and govt. organizations residing in Canada: Here we are talking about companies and govt. organizations that are located in Canada but belong to some other country. These kinds of organizations can employ foreigners without going through any advertising formalities.
• Workers employed for foreign govt. or non-Canadian organizations located in Canada: No advertisement is needed if the work is in a non-Canadian company or in a foreign govt. office.
• Domestic caretakers: In this case, a little bit of advertising is needed. However, the advertising rules have been made easy and quick for this category
• Agricultural farmworkers based on high or low wage stream: ad running rules have been made easier for this sector. The employer has to run ads for 14 days and add one extra method.
• Short-term employment: Jobs with a very low time span don’t need any advertising. The time span of that job has to be 30 days or even less. It has to be in a situation when there is not enough time to school a citizen or a PR holder for this task.
• Religion-based professions: In specified situations, advertisement formalities are made minimum for religion-based.
• Permanent or seasonal workers for the agricultural farms in Quebec: In case of changing an agricultural farmworker with someone new, there is no need to advertise again. This is only valid for the territory of Quebec.
• Specialists: There is no need for posting advertisements, if there is a special task only for experts, the time span of the post is low and the worker is needed urgently.
• Workers for appliances with warranty: Advertisement is not needed if workers are employed to set up, checkup, or fix any appliance with a warranty. This will only be valid if the tasks stated are included in the warranty.
