A VOICE LIKE NO OTHER, BUT ALSO A TROUBLED LIFE {pages 20-21}
GREECE’S COSTLY BAILOUT RIOT DAMAGE WORST IN YEARS {page 12}
TORONTO
Monday, February 13, 2012 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
‘It’s a nanny’s market’
Average processing time to get a nanny from the Philippines is now 17 months
Adele, seen arriving at the 54th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles, won four awards by the midpoint of the show, including song of the year for Rolling in the Deep. The 23-year-old sang publicly for the first time since undergoing vocal microsurgery in November. Afterward, she shrugged and curtsied as the crowd rose to its feet and roared its approval. More Grammy coverage, page 19. CHRIS PIZZELLO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Adele makes winning look easy at Grammys
These days, it scares Jodi Kaplan to let her live-in caregiver, Rose Pablico, out of her sight because of the rampant “nanny poaching” across Canada, especially in the GTA. Since 2010, fewer foreign live-in caregivers have been admitted to Canada, partly due to the declining applications by Canadian families who are now required to pay for all recruitment fees incurred, and partly a result of Ottawa’s slower processing and tighter screening. The shortage of live-in caregivers has been exacerbated since midDecember when the federal government issued 14,000 open work permits to nannies who met the employment hours to apply for permanent residency. The open work permits allow the nannies to work outside of an employer’s home and
“Nanny poaching is becoming rampant. When nannies arrive from overseas ... they know they have five families waiting,” MANUELA GRUBER HERSCH THE ASSOCIATION OF CAREGIVER AND NANNY AGENCIES CANADA
in the field they choose. “The flood of open work permits has evaporated the local nanny market right across Canada,” said Manuela Gruber Hersch of the Association of Caregiver and Nanny Agencies Canada. “It is now a nanny’s market. It will become worse before it will get better.” TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE