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by sundaymorningstaple » Sun, 13 Mar 2022 8:10 pm
Up until 2020 is was relatively hard to get PEP, regardless of your salary level. But when Covid hit, there were a combination of factors in play that may or may not have impacted the way that PEPs were granted. I have no confirmation of this other than 25 years of HR on the little Red Dot. From what we saw sitting here on this board is that every Tom, Lim & Prasad were applying for PEP when companies started shedding personnel and/or closing their doors. People were trying to buy time in the hopes that they could find another position as the positions were drying up much faster than any were being created. Add to that, the CECA and abuses by Indian Nationals who had been here long enough to make it into HR senior positions became common knowledge and the Indian diaspora started seeing the writing on the wall as more and more positions were being shed. The vast majority of applicants that we saw on this forum were from Indian Nationals, and this is still holding true two years down the road. Most were applying only to have a extended window to try to find another job as they were afraid of being stuck here without a job or having to return to their own country where Covid was having a field day.
From where I'm sitting I see it as a means for the Government to thin out the ranks here and reduce the ethnic imbalance in certain industries due to errant HR Managers. It's what I would have done, if faced with a resident population that is getting antsy and getting near to an GE. Find a way to thin the loading in the high-tech/financial industries, as the gov't, they had to been seen as doing something to overcome their own laxity. Give all these people to apply for PEP that can qualify for it. Those jobs will probably disappear and then when the PEP expires, there is nothing saying they have to approve an EP later. And they rarely, if every, give a reason. So the EP holder who stayed on EP may or may not make it through renewal (their guidelines are not a stringent as PEP), Those who opted for PEP, generally did it out of fear as this way they would have a 3 year visa or time to possibly find another position, or at least wouldn't have to walk into the lion's den of their own covid infected country. And when the PEP expires, they are under absolutely no requirements to give someone an EP if they gave it up previously. Add CECA and the general misunderstanding about it with the general resident public, it also gives a way to thin the herd out over a 3 year window.
If you get an IPA but don't use it, e.g., you remain on your EP and let the IPA expire then you will be able to apply for one later. But once the IPA is converted to the PEP. That's it, regardless of whether you give it up and return to an EP or not it can only be issued once.
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers