High job vacancies in health care, food services, and accommodation in Canada

According to the data revealed from newly-published job vacancies report in Canada, there are plenty of vacancies in  health care, accommodation, and food services.

Due to the increased public health measures, Canadian employers in healthcare, food service and accommodation sectors are looking for the employees. Among these health sector has highest number of openings.

Canadian employers are recruiting workers for 671,100 positions in May, whereas in July the healthcare sector recorded highest number of openings in Canada. These positions counted to 107,300 positions in May which is one sixth of all job vacancies in Canada.

Whereas accommodation and food services ranked second with 78,000 positions and is followed by retail trade sector having 73,800 job vacancies.

Quebec, for instance, recorded the highest job vacancy rate among all the provinces in Canada.

Province in Canada	Job vacancy percentage
Quebec	5.1
British Columbia	5.0
New Brunswick	4.9
Newfoundland	2.8
Labrador	2.8

In the total job vacancies, the accommodation and food services sector has a vacancy rate of 7.8 percent. This high percentage would reflect seasonal hiring and would be a recruitment challenge.

Due to the pandemic, the restaurants were shuttered, and the employees were forced to take up social assistance, and employers found it difficult to call back their staff. According to CBC reports, people started reconsidering their careers and lifestyles and are more concerned about their health. This high rate of vacancies is also partly due to the absence of international students, who often work part-time under this category.

Economist Andrew Agopsowicz states that " during the pandemic, the number of retirements and people quitting their jobs due to dissatisfaction dropped significantly. Now that the economy is recovering, the number of job quitters is returning to pre-pandemic levels. Retirements delayed by the pandemic could also pick up in the second half of 2021. These factors could exacerbate labor shortages throughout the summer and fall."

As the government has eased the restrictions in June, the percentage grew to 12 between May to June. As per the RBC report, Canadian employers will need to depend on the immigrants as the retirements and job quitting levels increased.

Canada is relying on immigration and other sources to meet the demands of labor force growth. Canada is admitting at a slower pace in the first few months. Later the intake was increased, when Canada started welcoming 35,000 new permanent residents. While July figures  are not yet out, the opening of the Canada border might increase these numbers.

Even though the Canadian federal government’s immigration target is 401,000 in 2021, they need to fill at least 43,000 new immigrants per month from July onwards in order to achieve this target.

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