Job Market Monitor
Canada
Banff – 27.3 per cent population immigrants in 2011, not including temporary foreign workers
While debate about the future of the foreign worker program, and an increase in immigrants more generally, continues to rage across Canada, a different kind of discussion is taking place here. In the cafes and tourist shops that line Banff Avenue, the conversation centres not on whether transitory new immigrants are stealing jobs from long-time … Continue reading
Job vacancies in Canada – 7.0 Unemployed people for every job vacancy in February, up from 6.3 one year earlier
There were 194,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses in February, a decline of 21,000 compared with February 2013. There were 7.0 unemployed people for every job vacancy, up from 6.3 one year earlier. This increase in the ratio of unemployment to job vacancy was mostly the result of the decline in job vacancies. The national job vacancy rate was 1.3% in February, down from 1.5% a … Continue reading
Canada – The baby boomer generation is starting to retire RBC report says
A new Royal Bank analysis suggests the Canada’s labour market is already starting to feel the impact of the aging workforce. The RBC paper notes that, given soft job growth in the past year and the corresponding decline in the labour participation rate, it is easy — and likely inaccurate — to jump to the … Continue reading
Skills Gap in Canada – How the myth was shattered
It took nine months of detective work by economists, journalists, social media sleuths and investigators at the Parliamentary Budget Office to solve the mystery of Canada’s missing job vacancies. Last week auditor general Mike Ferguson made it official: the federal government was using unreliable statistics to support its claim that Canada had plenty of jobs … Continue reading
Canada Job Bank – Outdated listings for jobs in dozens of communities that have long since been filled
Employment Minister Jason Kenney says there are no job postings languishing on the federal government’s online job bank that are older than six months — even though the site is strewn with ads that are almost a year old or older. “The typical maximum posting period is 30 days,” Kenney said this week in the … Continue reading
Canada – The job recovery is overstated says a Bank of Canada’s study
The Bank of Canada says the country’s job-creation record since the recession is likely a little less impressive than the fall in the unemployment rate would suggest. The central bank says in a new research paper that the unemployment rate, although the most quoted measure of labour market health, has overestimated the jobs recovery in … Continue reading
Canada – Employment decreased by 29,000 in April
Employment decreased by 29,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.9% as the number of people participating in the labour market edged down. There has been little overall employment growth in Canada since August 2013. On a year-over-year basis, the number of people working rose by 0.8% or 149,000, evenly split between part-time and full-time work. Chart 1 Employment … Continue reading
Canada – Statcan job numbers: the measurements don’t even address the most interesting information says Don Drummond
Statistics Canada’s survey presents the number of jobs created or lost for the given month, as well as the unemployment rate. Don Drummond, an economist who wrote a report for the government five years ago on how to improve the country’s labour-market data, said the concerns over the Labour Force Survey lie in the limitations … Continue reading
Ontario – How would the Retirement Pension Plan work ?
Often considered an issue that only engages politics at the federal level, pensions have dominated much of the early debate so far in the Ontario provincial election. The reason is a proposal put forward by Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne to create a made-in-Ontario pension called the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) to supplement the Canada … Continue reading
Canada – The 2012/13 Employment Insurance (EI) report: 1,310,000 Unemployed vs 509,000 Regular beneficiaries
The 2012/13 Employment Insurance (EI) Monitoring and Assessment Report examines the EI program for the 2012/13 fiscal year. Unless otherwise indicated, these highlights are for 2012/13 or relate to changes from 2011/12 to 2012/13. The number of regular and Work-Sharing claims fell, as the result of ongoing economic growth. The number of regular benefits claims … Continue reading
Canada’s Action Plan – Job-vacancy rate plunges as Kijiji data are dropped
The Conservative government has quietly adjusted its labour data to ignore job postings from Kijiji and similar websites, a change that essentially erases the dire warnings of labour shortages that Ottawa has used as justification for expanding the controversial temporary foreign worker program. With these sites removed from the source data, the government’s latest labour … Continue reading
Canada – Jacob retail chain closing its 92 stores – 2,000 jobs gone
After years of financial struggles, the Jacob retail chain announced Tuesday it is closing its 92 stores across Canada. “It’s a very sad day for retail in Quebec,” said analyst Terry Henderson of J.C. Williams Group. “Joey Basmaji was an icon,’’ he said of the founder of the family-owned fashion chain.Stores will remain open for … Continue reading
Canada – Better Labour Market Information are needed says the Auditor-General
The Auditor-General is weighing into the heated debate over job vacancy data, calling on Statistics Canada to provide more detailed information as to exactly where shortages are occurring and for precisely what jobs and skills. Auditor-General Michael Ferguson’s Spring 2014 report, released Tuesday, includes a largely positive report on the performance of Statistics Canada, but … Continue reading
Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program – Workers left in limbo by moratorium
Thousands of temporary foreign workers already on the job in Canada and in the midst of renewing their work permits are left in limbo by the moratorium on the fast food industry imposed by Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. If the moratorium is not lifted within 90 days, most of these workers will be forced … Continue reading
Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program – Their number doubled in 3 years in Windsor
Statistics show the number of temporary foreign workers employed in Windsor has more than doubled since 2009. The website for the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration shows 614 were employed in 2009. That number jumped to 1,550 in 2012, the last year for which data is available on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website. The … Continue reading
Jobs – Offres d’emploi – US & Canada (Eng. & Fr.)
The Most Popular Job Search Tools
Even More Objectives Statements to customize
Cover Letters – Tools, Tips and Free Cover Letter Templates for Microsoft Office
Job Market Monitor 