A New Campaign is launched to Bring Workers into Alberta, Canada
It is well-known that immigration can have a positive effect on a countries economy and many countries depend on immigrants coming in to fill a gap in the workforce when it comes to finding workers with specific skills. Now, a new study shows just how important it is to attract immigrant workers and a new campaign has been launched.
The province
of Alberta, Canada is in dire need of workers to help fill employment gaps, and
a new campaign is encouraging immigrants to come in from America to help fill
the shortages.
Due to the
serious lack of skilled workers in the Alberta area, a trial project to bring
in 1,000 employees from the States was launched. However, Alberta still lacks
skilled workers so the efforts go on to bring more workers from the US.
Alberta has
a particular shortage when it comes to resource projects; Alberta isn’t alone
when it comes to filling vacancies as Saskatchewan and Manitoba are also
experiencing a shortage in labour workers.
The
Conference Board of Canada says that employers in Alberta find US employees
ideal because they have the related training and experience needed for the job
and they don’t need a visa to come into Canada. However, the process of
migrating from America to Canada for work is not without its difficulties and
it is not a straight forward process to bring skilled employees in from
America.
Laura
Dawson, author of the Skills in Motion: U.S. Workers May Hold the Key to
Canada’s Skills Shortage, said:
“With 50,000
unfilled vacancies and more than double that number expected within a decade,
the labour and skills shortage has a direct impact on Alberta’s ability to
develop its resource and energy sector. That is not just a regional problem, it
affects our national economic prospects as well.”
The pilot
scheme to attract US workers into Alberta was launched in 2012; a recruitment
campaign to attract more people from the States to migrate to the Canadian
province is currently under way. One key group being targeted during the
campaign are US and Canadian veterans.
While
employers in Alberta still feel that the best place to look for workers is locally,
they also understand the challenges of finding enough local employees. The
report stresses the need for government, businesses and unions to do more than facilitate
workers coming into Canada and has called for more to be done to put a stop to
the barriers when it comes to workers certification.
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