Canadian political parties must take measures to tackle the country\u2019s labor shortage.<\/p>\n
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By Anthony Moran<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Canadian Federation of Independent Business<\/em>\u00a0(CFIB) reported that the average private-sector job vacancy rate in Canada has been at 3.2% for four consecutive quarters. 429,000 jobs went unfilled for at least four months in the second quarter of 2019–23,000 more than in 2018.<\/p>\n Vacancy rates are dependent on a variety of factors, which include economic outlooks, growth intentions, the size of a particular business, and firm-specific job characteristics, the CFIB\u2019s Help Wanted report highlighted.<\/p>\n \u201cAlthough it looks like vacancy measures may have topped out, there are still some under-performing job markets in Canada which, if corrected could still theoretically push the national average rate higher,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n Ted Mallet, CFIB\u2019s vice-president and chief economist, noted that there is strong pressure within the Canadian economy to increase wages in those firms that had vacancies.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile this rate of job vacancies can be a sign of a growing economy, we don\u2019t want labor shortages to become an obstacle to success,\u201d he said in the press release.<\/p>\n Private sector job vacancy rates were highest in British Columbia and Quebec, tied at 3.9%.<\/p>\n For Quebec this represented 116,000 unfilled jobs, while British Columbia had 74,700.<\/p>\n According to the CFIB report, B.C\u2019s vacancy rate has increased slightly since last year, while Quebec has seen a minor decrease from the first quarter of 2019.<\/p>\n Ontario and New Brunswick came in around the national average, at 3.2 and 3.1% respectively.<\/p>\n The personal services industry saw the highest vacancy rate at 4.9% with the construction sector following at 4.8%. Hospitality came third with a vacancy rate of 3.7%. Agriculture, enterprise management, professional services, and health services all came in at 3.4%, while the information sector had the lowest vacancy rate at 2.1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Canadian political parties must take measures to tackle the country\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":22768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,43],"tags":[529,99,1385,2462,2463,335,2439,2460,2464,2461,487],"class_list":["post-22767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-management-leadership","tag-canada","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-cfib","tag-foreign-workers","tag-immigrants","tag-labor-shortage","tag-shortage","tag-visa-students","tag-wage","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22930,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767\/revisions\/22930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The breakdown<\/strong><\/h1>\n