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Canada / Gap between youth and adult employment widest in 35 years
Young people in Canada have long faced a tougher slog in the job market than adults, but the gap between youth and adult unemployment has now reached the widest gap in 35 years, a new Statistics Canada report shows. The youth unemployment rate in 2012 was 2.4 times that of adults — marking the biggest … Continue reading
Canada / Total registrations in apprenticeship training programs across Canada declined in 2011
Total registrations in apprenticeship training programs across Canada declined 1.0% from the previous year to 426,283 in 2011. This was the first decline since 2008. Training programs received 97,605 new registrations in 2011, up 5.4% from 2010 but down from the 9.1% advance posted a year earlier. (This includes those individuals who were reinstated in 2011 after a year or more of absence.) Although new registrations have been increasing … Continue reading
Canada / The Youth Unemployment Gap mainly due to higher unemployment inflows
In 2012, the unemployment rate of youths aged 15 to 24 was 14.3%, compared with a rate of 6.0% for core-age adults aged 25 to 54. A significant gap between the unemployment rates of youths and adults have been observed every year since 1977. Most of the gap between the unemployment rates of youths and adults is the result of higher unemployment inflows among youths. In 2012, 2.6% … Continue reading
US / Employment Lags
The American economy may be the world’s biggest, but when it comes to job creation since the recession hit at the end of 2007, it is far from a leader. Indeed, contrary to the widespread view that the United States is an island of relative prosperity in a global sea of economic torpor, employment in … Continue reading
Canada / EI ‘Reform’ / Atlantic premiers name panel to study Ottawa’s changes
Atlantic Canada’s premiers have appointed a four-member panel to review Ottawa’s changes to employment insurance. A member from each of the four provinces will sit on the panel to be led by University of Moncton economist Pierre-Marcel Desjardins. The other members include Nova Scotia labour union leader Danny Cavanaugh, Ian MacPherson of the Prince Edward … Continue reading
Canada / Tech Job Search / What resources do you use?
New Graduate Resource http://www.talentegg.ca Job Boards and Aggregators http://www.monster.ca http://www.indeed.ca http://www.dice.com http://www.wowjobs.ca http://www.techjobscanada.com http://www.knighthunter.com http://www.waterlootechjobs.com Start-Up Accelerators/Communities http://www.communitech.ca http://www.techalliance.ca http://www.softwarehamilton.com http://www.startupnorth.ca Recruiters http://www.peopletogo.com Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor What Canadian resources do you use for your Tech Job Search? : canada.
Canada / The end of the Middle-skilled workers ?
Canada’s “middle-skill” employment sector continues to erode alongside the growth of high-skill jobs, an indication that the labour market is splintering between well-paid, interesting, permanent jobs – and the rest. Canada is not experiencing the same degree of employment polarization as the United States. But it’s not immune to global trends either, which show robust … Continue reading
Canada / Oil and Gas Industry / Ten-Year Hiring Estimates Between 125,000 to 150,000 Across Canada
Canada is facing significant challenges in the availability of skills and talent required to meet the workforce needs of Canada’s oil and gas industry over the next ten years, according to a report released today by the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada. “The Decade Ahead: Labour Market Outlook to 2022 for Canada’s Oil and … Continue reading
Canada / The Controversy over Chinese miners is not over
One resident of an unnamed British Columbia community claimed to personally know 40 unemployed miners who would be more than happy to work at a proposed coal mine in the province’s northeast that was instead slated to employ temporary Chinese workers. Another lamented the mine’s hiring plan as just the latest example of Canadian resources … Continue reading
Canada / Can we do it better in Skilled trades?
A great deal of discussion is going on now about whether Canada is facing a shortage of skilled workers. Whether you are in the camp that believes it is or not, I think most people would agree that a country whose population has a diverse set of skills is able to respond more effectively to … Continue reading
Canada’s Skills Gap / Needs to do a better job of collecting and disseminating reliable labour market information
Canada needs to do a better job of collecting and disseminating reliable labour market information, the kind employers, students and policy-makers can rely on to make good decisions, observers say. “Our data is horrible,” said Rick Miner, a former Seneca College president who took part in a federal labour market advisory panel in 2009. The … Continue reading
The Canada Job Grant / What do you think about it ?
Tell us what you think about the Ottawa’s proposed Canada Job Grant. Use the DISCUSSION section at the bottom of this page and enter your comment at the end of this post. As Lina Dib wrote in La Presse, “Ottawa is trying to sell a product that Quebecers do not yet exist and that will probably … Continue reading
Vacation Around the World / United States Still a No-Vacation Nation
The United States is the only advanced economy that does not guarantee its workers any paid vacation time, according to a new review of international labor laws by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). As a result, almost 1-in-4 Americans do not receive any paid vacation or paid holidays, trailing far behind most … Continue reading
Canada / Is the widespread assumption that Canada is suffering from a growing shortage of labour true?
“When the Royal Bank of Canada was recently caught up in a maelstrom of bad publicity over its use of temporary foreign workers, it led politicians and pundits to scrutinize and question the growing use by Canadian firms of imported, short-term labour” Kevin McQuillan in ALL THE WORKERS WE NEED: DEBUNKING CANADA’S LABOUR- SHORTAGE FALLACY (Adapted … Continue reading
Canada / 150,000 jobs would be at risk in the housing sector
Canada’s housing market is slowing dramatically in terms of both sales and construction, dragging down economic growth and putting some 150,000 jobs at risk in coming years, a mortgage industry association warns in its spring report. The Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals stops short of calling the ongoing slide that began about nine months … Continue reading
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