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Labour shortage looms in Newfoundland and Labrador - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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  • Newfoundland and Labrador is in the midst of an unprecedented energy and resources boom that is straining the province’s ability to keep up. Finding enough workers to complete some $43-billion worth of major projects under way and planned is proving to be a monumental challenge.
  • Employers across the province are having trouble hiring tradespeople for new projects and other positions, even as thousands of people continue to leave home to find employment elsewhere – notably in Alberta’s oil fields – and even as Newfoundland suffers a 13.2-per-cent jobless rate.
  • “We’ve got employers at this table regularly saying to us that they’re concerned about the labour pool and they need labour,” Premier Kathy Dunderdale said in an interview at her St. John’s office.
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  • The skills gap is a problem in other parts of Canada. Across the country – from the oil sands of Alberta to diamond mines in the North – resource companies are finding it difficult to attract workers, a shortage that threatens to play havoc with project economics by driving up labour costs and delaying construction schedules.
  • While the jobless rate remains stubbornly high, many of those listed as officially unemployed are seasonal workers in industries such as fishing and tourism. They often live in rural communities, work for a few months and then survive on unemployment insurance.
  • Younger people have left the province in droves: the population of Newfoundland and Labrador fell by nearly 75,000 people – or 13 per cent – to 506,000 between the early 1980s and 2007. And it tended to be young adults who moved away.
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    A recent article describing the decline in the human capital resource and labour in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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