Businesses struggle to find local interest, turn to out-of-province or foreign workers

The founder of a company that helps find workers for businesses struggling to recruit employees thinks new changes to federal policy surrounding foreign workers could pose a threat to local industry.

Paul Shelley, the founder of Work Global Canada, a new company that specializes in filling labour needs in specialized industries, said provincial statistics show that there simply aren’t enough people in the local work force.

“For the next eight, nine years in Newfoundland and Labrador, our demographics shows that some 10,000 [workers] per year will retire from our system,” Shelley said. “When you couple that with the fact of mega-projects coming out of stream, like Muskrat Falls, Hebron, Long Harbour, and so on, it’s simple mathematics — we will not have the number of people to facilitate and move those projects forward,” he added.

Source: Full details at CBC News

The following is a segment from CBC, St. John’s Morning Show (May 10th, 2013)