Tag: employment
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Oxford County to hold ‘touch it, taste it, try it’ job fair
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As the province faces a historic skilled trades shortage, Oxford County is taking measures to attract and retain workers. The Oxford County Career Expo will bring together job seekers and employers. Organizers hope the job fair will help address what they call a “chronic skill and labour shortage” by persuading those looking for work to…
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London region on a tear in post-pandemic job growth: Stats Can
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The London region was among the nation’s leaders in job recovery after the pandemic, gaining more than 42,000 jobs one year after COVID-19, just released figures from Statistics Canada show.
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Second chance: Jobs program begins for people with criminal records
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A London employment agency is supercharging its efforts to get people with criminal records working.
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New figures point to dramatic turnaround in number of London-area workers
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Four years ago, London had a problem, being the worst in big-city Canada for the proportion of working-age adults sitting out the job market, neither working nor looking for jobs.
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Pearson: This Labour Day finds balance between workers and bosses changing
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We’ve never been through a Labour Day weekend like this one, leading many observers to believe we might be on the threshold of a new and transformative relationship between employers and employees.
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Jobs aplenty, but unemployment rising. What gives in London?
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Thousands of jobs going begging, more coming down the pike and still London’s jobless rate is going up. The question is why?
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Hiring outlook best in a decade in Canada
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If you’re looking for a job, a new survey suggests your chances of getting one are pretty good.
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London-area jobless rate hits lowest level in nearly three years
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The unemployment rate in the London area dipped in April to one of its lowest levels in 16 years, signalling a complete bounce-back from the COVID-19 pandemic as thousands of jobs are going begging and many more are coming. The region’s jobless rate in April was 4.8 per cent, a big drop from 5.3 per…
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3,000 new jobs are coming to the London region. Will there be enough workers?
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More than 3,000 jobs will be created in the London region during the next two years, sparking worry from business and industry it will be tough to find workers. There already are more than 6,000 job vacancies in the city and region as the area economy emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. So far this year,…