Topic: WORC Director Jeremy Scott

Incoming regulations will outline criteria expat workers need to meet for new work permits if they leave their jobs in their first two years.

Government officials have confirmed they are investigating cases of fraudulent work permits being used to bring overseas workers to the Cayman Islands under false pretences.

Ten of thousands of jobs are advertised each year in the Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman employment portal, but the agency has no power to reject ads that are written specifically to exclude certain candidates, lawmakers have heard.

Workforce Opportunities & Residency Cayman's Compliance & Enforcement Unit has sounded the warning to employers that it will continue its ramped up random spot checks at workplaces after 16 workers were nabbed for employment and immigration breaches.

After having missed its June deadline the launch of Cayman's new Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman jobs portal has now been shifted further down the line with no official start date formalised.

Students from high schools around the island got a firsthand look at the careers open to them in the construction industry as the inaugural Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman expo kicked off Tuesday.

Government's overhaul of its employment portal JobsCayman is expected to cost $1.3 million, about 1,300% more than the total cost for the existing gateway, the Ministry of Border Control and Labour has confirmed.

Government's employment portal JobsCayman is set for a major overhaul, Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman Director Jeremy Scott has said.

As of July there were just over 300 outstanding permanent residency applications awaiting processing, a significant decrease from the 800 backlogged in the last two years, according to Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman Director Jeremy Scott.

Even as concerns over processing delays persist Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman Director Jeremy Scott says his team is making progress chipping away at the backlog of work permit and related applications.