Canadian workforce

Special Study on Labour Force Groups

Low Income, Labour Force Participation and Women in Housing Need, 1991

manpower needs [ labour supply | manpower demand | manpower requirements | labour supply(UNBIS) ]

labour force [ manpower | structure of the labour force | worker | employees(UNBIS) ]

clandestine worker [ illicit worker ]

Convention concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value | Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951

direct labour yield variance | labour yield variance | total direct labour yield variance

labour supply

The study gave us a basic overall economic impact, which was that 28 per cent of the population in Nova Scotia lives in the coastal zone; 24 per cent of the employed labour force works in the coastal rural zone; 14 per cent of the labour force depends directly on wharves and harbours; and 70 per cent of the provincial exports are generated by largely rural, coastal-based industries.

The Union will be able to reap the full benefits of an active, innovative and skilled workforce while avoiding the very high costs of having young people neither in employment, education or training (‘NEETs’), currently put at 1,2 % of GDP.

Honourable senators, in 2011 Canadian small businesses employed approximately 5 million people. It represented 48 per cent of the total labour force in the private sector and these businesses contributed slightly more than 30 per cent to Canada's GDP.

Stresses that an older labour force and longer working lives can make a positive contribution to the recovery and future growth; considers that, for (older) employees performing physically and/or mentally demanding work, a dynamic labour market must offer creative solutions such as greater flexibility in the statutory retirement age, part-time pensions, adapted working conditions, encouraging lifelong learning, improving job-seeking services or movement from one job to another, to strike a lasting balance between the requirements of employment and the capacities of workers; considers there to be a need for an active policy to prevent d ...[+++]iscrimination on grounds of age by monitoring the correct implementation of Directives 2000/78/EC and 2006/54/EC and promoting a European culture of active aging ensuring that older people have a life of vitality and dignity; calls on Member States to combine penalties for labour market discrimination with incentives for employers to create an inclusive labour market; calls on the Member States, in the context of the reforms and the extension of working life and with the assistance of the Commission, to implement more effectively the directives on health and safety at work;