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Future-proofing the automotive workforce - Supporting Ontario’s auto sector workers through the ZEV transition

8 Dec 2023

The high level of education in the immigrant labour to women considering the sector, that they do not belong there pool suggests that the automotive manufacturing industry will (an effect captured in research of similar workplaces that reduces continue to draw from immigrants and international students as the likelihood of women remaining in the sector, and reduces a source of labour for jobs that. [...] There is also a be addressed, as it is the first step towards creating labour chance that some of the terms of the agreement help address market policies that support the groups who want to work in the worker concerns around medium- to long-term security as the automotive sector, the employers who want to hire them, and ZEV transition happens. [...] In August This lack of clarity could be a contributing factor to the reduced 2023, the federal government launched a new category-based intake through the FSTP and the increasing willingness of selection for the Express Entry program, with skilled trades occu- immigrants, especially those in the earlier maintenance stages pations being one of the selected categories for 2023.79 This at home, to im. [...] ers’ biggest barriers to supporting training, while 50% said the operational and time costs it takes to organize and deliver such Supports for workers through settlement training was the barrier holding back the growth of training services initiatives.91 In addition to the latter issue, both employers and labour stakeholders at SPI workshops raised the issue of the The last immigration-related iss. [...] In the sector, the term “labour adjustment” is Despite the touted success of the Action Centres, stakeholders commonly used to refer to the management (i.e., policy mea- shared concerns regarding the logistics of getting the Action sures and other supports) of either voluntary or involuntary job 116 Centres up and running.

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