Jonathan Green

Oct 24, 2024 | mondaq.com | Jonathan Green

The Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages Randy Boissonnault has announced further reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program ("TFW Program"). In August, the Government of Canada made significant changes to the Low-Wage stream, which included: A refusal to process applications where the unemployment rate was 6% or higher in the applicable census metropolitan area (barring exceptions for seasonal and non-seasonal jobs, as well as construction and healthcare.

Oct 3, 2024 | mondaq.com | Jonathan Green

The Directors Registration and Licensing Law, 2014 (the "Law") was passed by the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly on 11 April 2014 and came into force on 4 June 2014.1 The Law is intended to assist the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority ("CIMA") in verifying basic information on directors of: (i) companies regulated by CIMA as mutual funds under the Mutual Funds Law (2013 Revision)(the "Mutual Funds Law"); and (ii) companies registered with CIMA as "excluded persons" under certain heads of...

Sep 2, 2024 | mondaq.com | Jonathan Green |Soliyana Yared

In a move aimed at recalibrating the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program, Canadian Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, Randy Boissonnault, has announced significant reductions and compliance measures. These changes, effective September 26, 2024, mark a notable shift in the government's approach to addressing labour market needs.

Apr 30, 2024 | sei.org | Cleo Verkuijl |Jonathan Green

Animal agriculture contributes an estimated 12%–20% of the globe’s total human-fuelled greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, both governmental and private actors have proposed various ways to mitigate the climate impacts of this industry.

Jan 2, 2024 | mondaq.com | Jonathan Green |Michael Richardson |Christopher Capewell |Scott MacDonald |Scott Macdonald

On 12 December 2023, the European Commission published Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) (the "Delegated Regulation") amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to update its list of 'high-risk third countries' ("EU AML List") identified as having strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing ("AML/CFT") regimes. The Delegated Regulation provides for the removal of the Cayman Islands from the EU AML List.