Go to the Globe and Mail homepageBy Justine Hunter. Within the next two years, the B.C. work force will undergo an invisible shift, when the pool of younger workers becomes smaller than the number of aging workers who have their eye on retirement. If the labour analysts are correct, 2016 is the point when the real trouble starts. There are regions of the province where recruitment and retention is a challenge now – but just wait until the retirement-aged segment of the work force outnumbers new entrants. More...