Doubt cast on skills 'crisis' claim

By Claire Brownell. Canada needs a better system for keeping track of who's hiring, Workforce Windsor-Essex executive director Tanya Antoniw said, agreeing with a recent TD Economics report.
The report argues that because of Canada's patchwork system for keeping track of our workforce, we don't actually know whether reports of a skills gap crisis - a serious mismatch between the skills the labour force has and the skills employers need - are accurate. Many key labour force indicators get their information from employer surveys and analyses of online job postings, which are not reliable sources of data, according to the report. More...