The supertight job market that is bedevilling employers and the Bank of Canada alike has an upside: it has managed to do quickly what employment equity practices and public policy have struggled with for years.
Still, from the start of the pandemic, the job market is now 497,000 positions larger than it was back then. In other words, after all of the ups and downs, closures and reopenings, illness and fear, that’s half a million more jobs than what we used to have, and it speaks to the resilience of the Canadian labour market.
Participation rates — how many people are actively working or looking for work — are also proof of significant progress for some key demographics. The participation rate is at a record high for women aged 25 to 54, at 85 per cent. That’s still lower than men of the same age , but after all of the troubles women had at the beginning of the pandemic, it’s remarkable.
“One of Canada’s longest-standing labour market challenges has been the underemployment of newcomers. And there really has been a noticeable shift,” Bernard said in an interview. He suspects even if the pace of hiring slows down over the next few months, vacancies will remain high. So employers are deeply concerned about long-standing labour shortages and they’ll hang on to their workers for as long as they can. It’s just too hard to ramp back up.
hscoffield Where did all the people who held these jobs before the pandemic go? Did they all leave the country? How is it possible that suddenly there are no more servers or retail workers or hair cutters? Or did they all move into management positions?
hscoffield Mass immigration is being used to suppress wages and continue the real estate ponzi scheme in Canada. There is no 'worker shortage.' It's a decent wage crisis. 3rd world country status incoming. Flight by flight.
hscoffield But here in Quebec, my 14 year looking for a first job, they want people with experience, where will he get experience if they don’t even give him chance
hscoffield Equity ... that buzzword of 2021 .
hscoffield For those that don't want to read, minorities and newcomers are picking up the jobs. This fits into the equity nonsense.
hscoffield TorontoStar This is a the most perverse attempt to whitewash the catastrophic damage to people's lives that now the elderly have to return to work, but that just means we've reached equity? In poverty perhaps. How ridiculous.
hscoffield TorontoStar Other side of the coin - parents and older people who would otherwise be looking after their kids or enjoying retirement forced to work because of high inflation.
Funny how Zhers is making their products smaller and charging more
The 'elites' are essentially psychopaths who don't care who dies as long as they are comfortable. Destroy their comfort, crush their resistance and make them beg for mercy, or suffer. Mass mobilization, general strikes and direct action. Grow a spine, win a future.
These people are so mid-witted that literally everything 'thought' they have starts with diversity from which they work backwards.
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