Travel & TFW/SAWP Information

The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW), with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), has produced 8 Ontario agricultural region posters (English and Spanish), identifying community, health care, and stress and psychosocial supports available to international agricultural workers. 

Table 1: Workers Returning to Home Country

The Destination Tracker developed by UNWTO uses Timatic Travel Regulations content and collates it with other government information to provide an overview of destinations open to travel and to detail COVID-19 restrictions at destination.

On April 29, 2021 Bill 284 was accepted through Royal Assent. The key components of this bill are effective from April 19, 2021 until September 25, 2021, where employees are entitled up to 3 days of “Paid Infectious Disease Emergency Leave” related to COVID-19 if they are:

In November 2020, the Federal government announced they would be unrolling a process that would allow up to 401,000 foreign nationals permanent Canadian residency and citizenship in 2021.

Below are many various COVID-19 related resources, translated to Spanish, to help keep your workforce safe!

Translation provided by the TNO’s Empowering Migrant Workers Project. 

While technicians or specialists who support critical infrastructure (CI) may be considered for an exemption, it is important to note that supporting CI, in and of itself, is not an acceptable rationale. They must demonstrate to border officials:

See the link below to WECHU’s recently-created web page of COVID-19 vaccine information for temporary foreign workers:

Driverseat can help get TFWs from airport entry points safely to their farming facility.