Coming up short : Canada atlantique : obstacles à l'apprentissage et pénurie de main- d'oeuvre- deux problèmes liés

December 2013 Coming Up Short: Barriers to Apprenticeship and the Shortage of Labour Changes to apprenticeship urgently needed to avoid an Atlantic labour crisis Katie Phillips, Public Policy and Entrepreneurship Intern Atlantic Canada’s demographic, immigration, and regional outmigration challenges threaten to plunge the region into a labour crisis. [...] Introduction and Context While the labour shortage is a national problem, Atlantic Canada’s demographic and The Shortage of Labour immigration realities make the issue a pressing and immediate concern. [...] When asked about the replace them (see Appendix 1).1 According to greatest challenges facing Atlantic Canada in the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, if the next five years, 60 per cent of small current trends continue, by 2026 one job in business owners in the region pointed to the every eight in Canada will be vacant.2. [...] Apprenticeship is one aspect of an overall solution to the shortage of labour12 responsible for preparing hundreds of Atlantic Canadians for the workforce every year. [...] Increasing Half of Atlantic small business owners opportunities for members of these groups is surveyed identified the costs associated with no doubt important, but with the current supervising and training apprentices as a shortage of labour, many employers do not challenge in providing apprenticeship training have the option of hiring from an under– (see Figure 7).