Canada | Delaying OAS won’t keep skills in the labour force for long, sedentary and stressful jobs

The long, sedentary and stressful hours behind the wheel take a serious toll on truck drivers. In North America the average trucker dies at 61 years of age comments Linda Hall from Vancouver .They are lucky to see 65, much less 67.

Nurses work 12-hour shifts, often graveyard shifts, on their feet all day, lifting and moving heavy people, dealing with life and death emergencies routinely.

Delaying OAS won’t help keep “valuable skills” in the labour force.

Very few people are up for the rigorous demands of these jobs in their later sixties…

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via Elderly workers are no tonic for looming labour shortage.