CALGARY — On Monday afternoon, the Alberta government tabled legislation that could put to rest a long-standing dispute between the tech sector and one the province’s regulators over the use of the term “software engineer.”
The bill, called the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Amendment Act, could be a big win for tech companies, who have argued that regulatory overreach had prevented them from filling jobs.
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