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Ontario / People Without Jobs, Jobs Without People
Rick Miner, Ph.D. produced the report People Without Jobs, Jobs Without People in February 2010. Job Market Monitor chooses to present some excerpts given its relevancy in the debate about the extend of the Skills Gap in Canada. -*- While much of the world is understandably focused on the current recession, there is a looming demographic and labour … Continue reading
Ontario / The underground economy is stealing jobs
Some of those jobs London so badly needs, with the highest big-city jobless rate in the country, can be found underground. No, not in the dirt but in the underground economy. Hidden from number counters, the taxman and competing with businesses that pay their taxes and might even hire more people if business were better, … Continue reading
Canada – Ontario – Quebec / A confrontation emerges on workforce training
The Minister of Finance of Canada, M. Jim Flaherty and his colleague Human Resources and Skills Development, Mrs. Diane Finley launched theirs courses of action in workforce training last week. It might be a political football, but Quebec and Ontario were fast to react. Those reactions are certainly fuelled by the media, as always. Ottawa … Continue reading
Ontario / Graduates of applied and technical programs obtain higher earnings within 2 years those of liberal arts
Kristyn Frank & David Walters examine the influence that field of study and level of post-secondary education have on the earnings of recent graduates in Ontario in Exploring the Alignment Between Post-Secondary Education Programs and Earnings: An Examination of 2005 Ontario Graduates. Graduates of trades, community college, and university programs are compared. Results suggest that graduates of … Continue reading
Hamilton Entertainment and Convention / Jobs for more than 800 staff still uncertain
There’s still uncertainty among HECFI’s more than 800 staff over what will happen to their jobs when Copps Coliseum, Hamilton Place and the convention centre change hands, a move that could happen as soon as March 1. Hamilton Entertainment and Convention Facilities Inc. has 52 full-time and about 800 part-time employees. All are nervous about … Continue reading
Advantage Ontario calls for action in Ontario’s key tradable sectors to create jobs
“We are living in an era of increased global competition and the continuing aftermath of the financial crisis and global recession” writres Gord Nixon and Kevin Lynch in the LETTER TO ONTARIANS introducing the report of the Jobs and Prosperity Council ADVANTAGE ONTARIO (Adapted choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor to follow) Economic globalization has at once undermined traditional … Continue reading
Ontario / Ford offers jobs to laid off workers
Laid off Ford workers in Windsor and St. Thomas have until Dec. 14 to decide whether to apply for close to 400 jobs that will be opening up early next year at the automaker’s operation in Oakville, Chris Taylor, president of CAW Local 200, said Thursday. As part of the a preferential hiring program, Ford … Continue reading
Canada – Employment Up by 34,000 with 33,000 in Quebec
After a decline in July, employment rose by 34,000 in August, the result of an increase in part-time work. The unemployment rate held steady at 7.3%. Employment On a year-over-year basis, employment increased by 1.0% or 177,000, with most of the gains occurring in the spring of this year. Virtually all of the increase in the 12-month period was in full-time … Continue reading
Ontario Power Generation cuts 1,000 jobs
Ontario Power Generation is shedding 1,000 jobs across the province as it prepares for a coal-free future. OPG spokesperson Ted Gruetzner said Wednesday that the move away from coal generation and toward alternative and gas energy sources will reduce the amount of electricity the organization produces, currently about 60% of the province’s supply. The company … Continue reading
TransHub Ontario aims to add 5,000 jobs by 2015
A regional transportation advocacy group should target large manufacturers, trucking companies and warehouses in the GTA to sell them on moving west to get out of gridlock. That’s one of the recommendations of a new report laying out the action plan for the next three years of TransHub Ontario. The year-old group aims to capitalize … Continue reading
Ontario | Job training excludes half of unemployed
Making employment supports available to all job-seekers would level the playing field and help the province’s neediest escape poverty, says Ontario’s social services review commission, headed by Frances Lankin and Munir Sheikh. The commission’s final report, to be released in June, will also include recommendations on how to improve the administration of the province’s two … Continue reading
Toronto | School Board cuts over 300 jobs
The Toronto District School Board has voted to eliminate 200 high school teaching jobs, 134 office staff and 17 elementary vice-principals. The cuts are meant to help the Board deal with a $85-million budget shortfall in 2012-13. There are reports that the board could face an additional $25 million on top of the $85 million … Continue reading
Strong Canadian dollar has pushed goods sector wages making Canada a non-costeffective location says a CIBC Report
“Remember 62 cents? Canada’s currency posted its all-time weakest monthly close against its American cousin exactly a decade ago, making a dramatic U-turn thereafter. Despite leveling off in recent years, the US¢/C$ exchange rate remains 60% stronger than it was a decade ago and is also more than 20% firmer than a trade-weighted basket of other major currencies” write Avery Shenfeld and … Continue reading
Job prospects in Canada remain weak, latest help-wanted survey suggests | CanadianBusiness.com
The Conference Board’s forward-looking indicator on labour markets suggests job growth will continue to be modest in the upcoming months. The think tank’s help-wanted index for February shows a mixed climate for job seekers. Prospects appear stronger in the West, but weak throughout much of Ontario. The index is one of the few forward-looking indicators … Continue reading
Migrant workers need better integration in Canada, study urges – The Globe and Mail
Good Mexican restaurants in rural Ontario, small-town church services in Spanish, and gridlocked Friday nights with busloads of men wiring money home and crowding into the local grocery store. These are a few of the visible signs of the growth of Canada’s migrant agricultural worker programs, which are becoming an increasingly permanent fixture of the … Continue reading
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