Labour Market Information: Social Policy

Federal Government Dept: But Drummond's response for governments to spend $13 million -- a bargain in the world of social policy -- to overhaul and improve labour market information has gone all but unnoticed, according to CTV. As businesses yell louder about their inability to find the right people, and the unemployed and the underemployed voice equal frustration, the federal government is poised to revisit its labour market interventions, design some new programs to bring together the private sector and underutilized pools of workers, and demand better results from the provinces and OTTAWA -- It's been almost five years since economist Don Drummond was asked by concerned federal and provincial labour ministers to find solutions to the mismatched job market that has increasingly worried employers, governments and workers alike. Now, this week's federal budget will make that very same issue -- deemed critical in 2008 -- its centrepiece. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.