Immigration alone won’t help companies that are ‘starved’ for workers, experts say
Canada’s dependence on temporary workers to fill long-term gaps is a huge problem, said Alboim. It creates little incentive to improve wages, conditions or supports for temporary workers, she said.
That’s despite the fact that much of Canada’s labour shortage is in jobs that require lower levels of education or experience, jobs that many temporary workers and students take on, said Alboim.The federal government should expand its scope to prioritize more of these kinds of jobs, she said.
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