Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News, June 15, 2015
Across parties and levels of government, politicians are scrambling to reshape 20th-century labour policies to fit a 21st-century workforce.
How do you fix Canada’s labour instability trap?
labour market
Canada’s instability trap: Life in the temp work lane
February 17, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Julie Linkunatis loves to work.
Instability trap: Canadians want work. Why have so many stopped looking?
Feb. 10, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The percentage of working-age Canadians who aren’t working – who aren’t even looking for a job – is at a historic high years after the economy supposedly bounced back from the recession. The labour participation rate for Canadian men in their working prime – ages 25 through 54 – is the lowest it’s been since Statistics Canada started collecting that data.
Who hires temporary foreign workers? You’d be surprised
Anna Mehler Paperny and Jacques Bourbeau, Global News
Todd Bender doesn’t seem like he’d be in the market for temporary foreign workers: He’s executive director of CityKidz, a faith-driven group working with young people in inner-city Hamilton. His focus is local.
But three years ago, while hiring a youth coordinator, the hiring team realized their preferred candidate – a young woman from the Bahamas who had been studying in Canada – didn’t have the right visa to work in the country.
Skills mismatch or ‘labour market failure’? Canada’s newcomer conundrum
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
In the past seven years, the number of people brought to Canada to do a job and then leave has eclipsed the number of people moving here annually planning to stay.
In Jason Kenney’s immigration system, the labour market calls the shots
Photo by Fernando Morales/The Globe and Mail
Thursday, April 5, 2012 – Globe and Mail
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
Jason Kenney has had it with incremental measures.
“It frustrates the hell out of me,” the Immigration Minister told The Globe and Mail’s editorial board on Wednesday. “We’re bringing hundreds of thousands of people into the country to end up, many of them, unemployed or underemployed in an economy where there are acute labour shortages.”
