Baby Boomers: Skilled Trades

Project Developments Dept: Released Wednesday, the report titled Newfoundland and Labrador Labour Market Outlook 2020 projected that there will be 70,000 job openings in the province by 2020, according to CBC. The report said in addition to skilled trades, the vast majority of job postings will be in health, sales and service, and management. The jobs will be spread all over the province and newfoundland and Labrador is facing a major shortage of workers over the next decade as baby boomers retire and resource development projects get underway, according to a provincial government report. "In recent years our focus has been on building the skilled trades workforce that we need for our major project developments," said N.L.'s Minister of Human Resources, Trade and Employment Darin King at a news conference on Wednesday. "Now we need to build on this approach, broaden our focus to all all sectors across our economy." As reported in the news.
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