Volunteer work is a very complex situation to understand when it comes to immigration laws.<\/p>\n
A lot of students and visitors wish to gain work experience while offering their volunteer work to Canadian employers. Citizenship and Immigration Canada has an issue with this and Section 2 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations<\/em> define \u201cwork\u201d as follows: <\/span><\/p>\n “Work” is defined in the Regulations as an activity for which wages are paid or commission is earned, or that competes directly with activities of Canadian citizens or permanent residents in the Canadian labour market.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n This being said, the definition of work includes unpaid work<\/strong> if such activity competes directly with local people, in other words, an activity could be considered work if that job is given to a foreigner instead of a Canadian based on the fact that the foreigner is not receiving any wages. <\/span><\/p>\n At some instances, unpaid work could be equal to human trafficking and the sanctions imposed to employers taking advantage of these situations are high. <\/span><\/p>\n When the person wants to make sure whether their volunteering amounts to work under Canadian law, there is a simple test for this: <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The government considers whether there is entry into the labour market in the following manner:<\/span><\/p>\n If the answer to either of these questions is ‘yes’, the foreign national intends to engage in a competitive activity, which would be considered “work”.<\/span><\/p>\n The government itself mentions the following examples as they are considered work: <\/span><\/p>\n On the other hand, volunteering work is something that a person is usually<\/strong> not remunerated for on a regular basis. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A lot of students and visitors wish to gain work experience while offering their volunteer work to Canadian employers. Volunteer work is a very complex situation to understand when it comes to immigration laws and regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[358,357,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-study-in-canada","category-temporary-residence-en","category-visitors-en","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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