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GEM Health Care Group

LMIA employer · Halifax, Nova Scotia

Province or territory
Nova Scotia
City
Halifax
Positions on positive LMIAs
18
Periods listed
3
First and latest list
2025 Q1 · 2025 Q3
Positions18to 2025 Q3
Data as at ESDC lists to 2026 Q1
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Positive LMIAs

Each row is one line of an ESDC quarterly or annual list: approved positions for a stream, occupation and work location.

Approved positions
18
Year
2025

Occupations

Approved positions by NOC 2021 unit group (older lists mapped from NOC 2011 with the Statistics Canada concordance).

Positions by occupation
  1. Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates16
  2. Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses2
Main occupation
33102 Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates
Its share of this employer's positions
88.9%
Streams used
Low-wage stream (TFWP), High-wage stream (TFWP)

Negative LMIAs

A negative LMIA means ESDC assessed that hiring a temporary foreign worker for that job would likely have a negative effect on the Canadian labour market (for example, because qualified Canadians were available or wages were below the prevailing rate). It is not a finding of wrongdoing.

PeriodStreamOccupation (NOC)Requested positions
2025 Q2Low Wage33102 Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates6
Positions on negative LMIAs
6
Share of all listed positions that were positive
75.0%

Wages for Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates

Prevailing wages for this employer's main occupation (NOC 33102).

Median wage, Nova Scotia
C$23.00 per hour
Median wage, Canada
C$24.00 per hour
Job Bank postings in Nova Scotia, Jan–Sep 2026
624
Median advertised minimum hourly wage
C$20.22

Employers in Halifax

Other employers with positive LMIAs at the same location.

LMIA employers in Halifax
570
Positions on positive LMIAs in Halifax
2,612
This employer's share
0.69%
Top occupations in Halifax
  1. Cooks494
  2. Material handlers127
  3. Fish and seafood plant workers85
  4. Software engineers and designers67
  5. Labourers in fish and seafood processing67
  6. Construction trades helpers and labourers61

Among LMIA employers

GEM Health Care Group has 18 positions on positive LMIAs, ranking #10,668 of 151,287 LMIA employers in Canada and #201 of 1,779 in Nova Scotia. Its main occupation, Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates, accounts for 9,445 approved positions nationally; this employer holds 0.17% of them.

Rank in Canada by positions
10,668 of 151,287
Rank in Nova Scotia
201 of 1,779
Positions nationally, NOC 33102
9,445
This employer's share
0.17%
Positions by occupation
  1. Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates16
  2. Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses2