How to: Guide to Building Employee Resilience
Building resilience in employees is key to maintaining a healthy, productive work environment. By implementing these recommended steps, employers can significantly enhance the resilience of…
Factors Impacting Employability to Address Barriers to Employment
Understanding and addressing employability barriers is crucial for employers to tap into a wider talent pool and enhance workforce efficiency.
How to: Approach Filling Hot Jobs in Innovative Ways
By adopting these 10 strategies, employers can not only fill vacancies more effectively but also build a more diverse and dynamic workforce.
How to: Retaining Women in the Workforce
Women are three times as likely to leave high-contact jobs during a crisis, those jobs were disproportionately affected by the pandemic and women specifically often…
March Labour Lowdown
Toronto’s unemployment rate jumped to 8.2% last month, an increase of 0.7% from January 2024. The employment rate dipped by 0.4% to 59.8% while labour…
How to: Childcare Support for Working Parents
Common barriers that working parents encounter are limited availability at childcare centres, accessibility issues including transportation, high costs, and rigid schedules leading to long commutes.…
The AI Effect: Exploring the New Frontiers of Employment in Toronto
Automation’s impact on Toronto’s labor market is nuanced. Industries such as agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation, which traditionally employ a significant number of lower-skilled workers, are…
How to: Ripple Effects of Employee Turn Over In Tight Labour Markets
The study, which analyzed data from over a million employees at 1,620 retail chains over 22 months, found that layoff announcements have a strong, immediate…
Toronto’s Labour Market One of Few Bright Spots
Across Canada, labour market conditions weakened in November with unemployment rates increasing and layoffs on the rise compared with a year ago. The softer job…
How to Keep Your Best Employees: A Guide for Employers in Today’s Tight Labour Market
Welcome to the first installment in our new, comprehensive series exploring the Canadian labour market’s ongoing challenges. In this series, we will delve into the…
Toronto’s Labour Market Faces Headwinds
In October, Toronto’s unemployment rate rose to 6.6 per cent last month as job opportunities became somewhat less scarce in an economy being weighed down…
Toronto Employment Rates Stay Steady
JobsTO Labour Lowdown. September 2023 While Toronto CMA’s employment rate marginally improved in September there was a slight decline in both the employment and participation…