OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Marc Miller says international students will be able to work off-campus for up to 24 hours per week starting in September.
The Liberals temporarily waived the 20-hour cap on work hours for international students during the COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to ease labour shortages."Looking at best practices and policies in other like-minded countries, most of them limit the number of working hours for international students. Canada's rules need to be aligned or we will find our programs attracting more and more applicants whose primary intent is to work and not studying," Miller said.
Miller said his government is setting the cap at 24 hours because that seems"reasonable," and would allow students to work three full eight-hour shifts. The work hours limit will return to 20 hours per week until September, when the government can implement a permanent change to make it 24 hours. The Canadian Press reported earlier this year that officials in Miller's department warned the government in 2022 that the temporary waiver could distract students from their studies and undermine the objective of temporary foreign worker programs.
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