Sunday, January 23, 2011
A CANADIAN ‘WORKFORCE CRISIS?’
Is there something wrong with these optics?
Every year, Canadian birthrates fail to produce enough workers to maintain Canada's future, labour needs.
Every year, Canadian governments scour the planet for replacement workers.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of mature, healthy and productive Canadian workers are put ‘out to pasture’.
Every year, thousands and thousands of skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled people immigrate to Canada to fill Canada's future, labour gap.
Every year, billions of taxpayer’s dollars are spent on resettlement, language and cultural training, education and skill development, housing, assistance payments and hundreds of Canada ’s social agencies.
Every day, following over forty years of productive work, many of Canada ’s experienced, competent and acclimatized citizens are missing a sense of personal value, contribution, productivty, interaction and a daily schedule that only comes from ‘going to work’.
Every day, these citizens are here, ready, willing and available for work, at no cost whatsoever, but for one reason, ‘age’.
Even though today's Canadians are living far longer their forefathers, (1910: 50+ years, 2010: close to 80 years) and mandatory retirement laws have been abolished in seven of Canada ’s thirteen, geographical jurisdictions, employer’s attitudes have not.
In most employer's thinking, "65' equals retirement", whether employees wish it or not.
http://www.efmoody.com/estate/lifeexpectancy.html
Strange, isn’t it?
While Canadian employers cry and beg for workers, they terminate some of their best.
Many of Canada’s “60-plus” workers face major difficulties in being considered for contracting or employment. They are the older 'Zoomers' of the country, a phrase coined to describe Canada's “45-plus” generations. (‘Boomers’ + ‘Zip’ = “Zoomers”)
Employers should be encouraged to boost their bottom-line profits with fully-trained, tried, tested and true, 'Zoomers'.
Definitely, we should be questioning the ‘short-sightedness’ in the thinking of Canadian governments in why, at next to no expense, they are not actively promoting employment from this pot of competent, fully-experienced, 'Zoomer gold'.
Conclusions:
1. Canadian governments will continue to search and steal ‘the best’ from impoverished countries that so desperately need to keep ‘their best’ at home.
2. The long term, direct result of this prolonged draining, is that ‘have-not’ countries will remain ‘have-nots’ and be forced to rely on Canadian taxpayer’s foreign aid, seemingly forever.
3. The solid experience, proven credentials, culture and language skills, productive backgrounds and strong ‘work ethics’ of many of Canada’s 'Zoomers' will continue to be put ‘out to pasture’. For some, this means that many of these workers, movers and shakers are sentenced to live at poverty levels for the next 15 to 20 years of their lives while they still have so much to contribute.
What a totally-needless loss.
These optics are not only wrong, they are blatantly stupid.
Every year, Canadian birthrates fail to produce enough workers to maintain Canada's future, labour needs.
Every year, Canadian governments scour the planet for replacement workers.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of mature, healthy and productive Canadian workers are put ‘out to pasture’.
Every year, thousands and thousands of skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled people immigrate to Canada to fill Canada's future, labour gap.
Every year, billions of taxpayer’s dollars are spent on resettlement, language and cultural training, education and skill development, housing, assistance payments and hundreds of Canada ’s social agencies.
Every day, following over forty years of productive work, many of Canada ’s experienced, competent and acclimatized citizens are missing a sense of personal value, contribution, productivty, interaction and a daily schedule that only comes from ‘going to work’.
Every day, these citizens are here, ready, willing and available for work, at no cost whatsoever, but for one reason, ‘age’.
Even though today's Canadians are living far longer their forefathers, (1910: 50+ years, 2010: close to 80 years) and mandatory retirement laws have been abolished in seven of Canada ’s thirteen, geographical jurisdictions, employer’s attitudes have not.
In most employer's thinking, "65' equals retirement", whether employees wish it or not.
http://www.efmoody.com/estate/lifeexpectancy.html
Strange, isn’t it?
While Canadian employers cry and beg for workers, they terminate some of their best.
Many of Canada’s “60-plus” workers face major difficulties in being considered for contracting or employment. They are the older 'Zoomers' of the country, a phrase coined to describe Canada's “45-plus” generations. (‘Boomers’ + ‘Zip’ = “Zoomers”)
Employers should be encouraged to boost their bottom-line profits with fully-trained, tried, tested and true, 'Zoomers'.
Definitely, we should be questioning the ‘short-sightedness’ in the thinking of Canadian governments in why, at next to no expense, they are not actively promoting employment from this pot of competent, fully-experienced, 'Zoomer gold'.
Conclusions:
1. Canadian governments will continue to search and steal ‘the best’ from impoverished countries that so desperately need to keep ‘their best’ at home.
2. The long term, direct result of this prolonged draining, is that ‘have-not’ countries will remain ‘have-nots’ and be forced to rely on Canadian taxpayer’s foreign aid, seemingly forever.
3. The solid experience, proven credentials, culture and language skills, productive backgrounds and strong ‘work ethics’ of many of Canada’s 'Zoomers' will continue to be put ‘out to pasture’. For some, this means that many of these workers, movers and shakers are sentenced to live at poverty levels for the next 15 to 20 years of their lives while they still have so much to contribute.
What a totally-needless loss.
These optics are not only wrong, they are blatantly stupid.
Labels: HARPER/CONSERVATIVES, ZOOMERS
