Canada's emerging skills shortage: aging is not the only reason.OTTAWA -- The aging of Canada's population is not the only reason for Canada's emerging skills shortage, a Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. Policy and Research Networks report argues. Canadian policy makers and employers need to view future skill shortages in the labour force as a challenge, instead of as a "looming looming: see mirage. crisis" by being much more age-oriented in their decision making and engaging in good, planning. In their study, Labour Force Ageing and Skills Shortages in Canada and Ontario, Julie Anne McMullin, Martin Cooke Martin Cooke may refer to the following:
Nursing, for instance, risks potential labour shortages for reasons not only related to retirement but also related to the nature of the work involving long hours, difficult working conditions and irregular HEIR, IRREGULAR. In Louisiana, irregular heirs are those who are neither testamentary nor legal, and who have been established by law to take the succession. See Civ. Code of Lo. art. 874. shifts. Those conditions may also lead nurses to opt for early retirement, but the shortage may be further exacerbated by the length of training to become a nurse and competition from other jurisdictions for Ontario nurses. In contrast the information technology sector, which is a much younger industry with younger workers, faces little threat of employee shortages due to retirement, but its young age structure may "indicate potential problems for IT films hoping to recruit in an older labour market." Other factors affecting a possible skill shortage in the IT sector also include geographic mobility of work and people ready to emigrate em·i·grate intr.v. em·i·grat·ed, em·i·grat·ing, em·i·grates To leave one country or region to settle in another. See Usage Note at migrate. . The authors include these recommendations for policy action are: * use immigration policies An immigration policy is any policy of a state that affects the transit of persons across its borders, but especially those that intend to work and to remain in the country. to target skills in short supply, * encourage higher rates of labour force participation among groups who are underrepresented un·der·rep·re·sent·ed adj. Insufficiently or inadequately represented: the underrepresented minority groups, ignored by the government. in the labour force, such as Aboriginal people and single mothers, and * promote phased-in retirement and flexibility workplace policies to encourage the participation of older workers. |
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