Labour Market Shortages

resource sectors: We've seen this kind of labour mobility reversal before and will likely see it again as the resource sectors continue to go through boom-and-bust cycles, changing the patterns of labour market mobility within Canada. But this kind of high-profile migration obscures the fact that localized and regionalized labour market shortages are in still in play in many locations across the country, including Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador, according to Huffington Post Canada. Employers continue to struggle to match open positions with qualified job candidates. We know there has been an exodus of workers beating a path towards the Fort McMurray airport as the battered oil patch bleeds jobs and sends workers back to their home provinces. A 2014 report by Miner Management Consultants estimates a labour force shortage of close to 2 million workers in Canada by 2031. It is also important to note that many positions continue to sit vacant today in semi- or lower-skilled occupational job categories in which Canadians are not lining up to work. That an entire major city worth of workers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.