Canada's economic recovery from the pandemic is being hampered by labor shortages across industries ranging from energy to aviation to agriculture, forcing companies to consider multiple salary hikes and offer other perks.
Statistics Canada data on Friday showed the national unemployment rate hit a 20-month low in October. The shortage ofthreatens to hurt economic growth and fuel inflation, which is already at an 18-year high.
One solution, companies say, is to raise the numbers of temporary foreign workers. The federal government and several provinces are working on possible changes that would shorten the process to bring such workers to Canada and raise the maximum number of temporary foreign workers allowed to work per facility, said Richard Vigneault, spokesman for Quebec pork producer Olymel. The company is looking for 3,000 workers to add to its 14,000-member workforce, he added.
"It's a perfect storm in the sense that there is inflation, a shortage of workers and the aging of the population," she added.
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