Job minister says it is crucial to allow more opportunities for women, Indigenous people, people of colour and people with disabilities.
Guilano Verdicchio, 27, went to the University of Victoria to study history after high school in 2013. After two years, he dropped out and worked in coffee shops, grocery stores and restaurants, not finding his career calling.
Al Van Akker, chair of Camosun’s architectural trades and carpentry program, said he gets at least one or two calls a week from contractors and builders looking for students to hire. Many are in apprentice programs and already attached to a company, but Van Akker is confident students who graduate from the program will have their pick of jobs.
Still, the number of employees in the construction industry was seven per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels, with 178,715 workers as of June, up from 168,200 in February 2020, according to Statistics Canada’s employment survey. “When you get to finishing a building or a structure like a highway, bridge or something like that, being able to look at that and say, ‘Wow, I was part of that.’ That has a lot of appeal.”
Ravi Kahlon, B.C.’s minister for jobs, economic recovery and innovation, said there’s almost no sector that hasn’t been hurt by the labour shortage. The Jobs Ministry said it is using information from the Labour Market Outlook to expand training seats in highest-demand fields. He said it also means restoring skilled trades certifications. In 2003, a B.C. Liberal government eliminated the compulsory trades-credentialing system, which the Jobs Ministry said in a statement “devalued careers in the trades and helped create the labour shortages we’re seeing today in the sector.”Article content
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