Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants now qualify for Canada immigration through Express Entry in a move Ottawa is hoping will help ease Canada’s shortage of labour.
The change to the FSW which made that possible came on Nov. 16 last year, when Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) added 16 new jobs to its list of eligible occupations under that worker immigration program.
That increased the number of eligible occupations under the FSW on the same day the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 came into effect at the IRCC to 359.
The 16 new occupations are all deemed to be jobs for which the worker must get a college diploma, an apprenticeship training of fewer than two years, or more than six months of on-the-job training.
The full list of newly-added jobs on the list of eligible occupations under the FSW includes the following:
- NOC 13102 Payroll administrators
- NOC 33100 Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants
- NOC 33102 Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates
- NOC 33103 Pharmacy technical assistants and pharmacy assistants
- NOC 43100 Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants
- NOC 43200 Sheriffs and bailiffs
- NOC 43201 Correctional service officers
- NOC 43202 By-law enforcement and other regulatory officers
- NOC 63211 Estheticians, electrologists and related occupations
- NOC 73200 Residential and commercial installers and servicers
- NOC 73202 Pest controllers and fumigators
- NOC 73209 Other repairers and servicers
- NOC 73300 Transport truck drivers
- NOC 73301 Bus drivers, subway operators and other transit operators
- NOC 73400 Heavy equipment operators
- NOC 93200 Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors
Elementary and secondary school teacher’s assistants, commonly called teacher’s aides, help teachers and counsellors with teaching and non-instructional tasks.
A teacher’s aide might help with personal care, teaching and behaviour management in the classroom under the supervision of a teacher or other childcare professional.
Immigration Minister Says Canada Is Using All Available Tools To Tackle Labour Shortages Categorized under the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 system with the code 43100, the job prospects for teacher’s aides for the next three years are ranked by Jobbank as good in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Quebec, and the Yukon and as moderate throughout the rest of Canada.
At Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) the inclusion of teacher’s aides in the list of eligible occupations under the FSW in mid-November last year was done to help resolve ongoing labour shortages in the country.
“We are using all of the tools at our disposal to tackle labour shortages, particularly in key sectors like healthcare, construction, and transportation,” said Immigration Minister Sean Fraser in November last year.
Original article: Canada Immigration News
