BC -‘Help Wanted’
Prince George, B.C. – If you’re looking for a job, B.C. is the place to be. According to the latest information from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, B.C. has the highest job vacancy rate in Canada.
The job vacancy rate in this province was sitting at 3.2 per cent, or 56,500 vacant positions in the province. The rate is unchanged from the first quarter of 2016.
“Many BC businesses are looking to hire, and are finding it challenging to fill those positions with qualified labour,” notes Aaron Aerts, CFIB BC economist.
And there is a link between vacancies and wages according to the CFIB’s Help Wanted survey. Businesses with at least one vacancy reported planned average organization-wide wage increases of 1.8 per cent in Q2, 2016, while those fully staffed reported planned increases of only 1.1 per cent.
Nationally, the vacancy rate is sitting at 2.4% unchanged from the first quarter. “We’re continuing to see a moderate softness in Canada’s overall labour market,” said Ted Mallett, CFIB chief economist. “Weakness is still concentrated in the prairies where Alberta’s vacancy rate of 1.5 per cent is a record low for the 12 years we’ve been collecting the data.”
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I am kind of sick of BC being the best province to be in, maybe it is time to vote in the NDP and turn things around
I agree, the BC Liberals have decimated this province. The last time there was a surplus in the BC provincial budget was when the NDP was in power. Since then, we have been screwed,
Slinky, you mean changing the status of B.C. from number #1 in Canada to dead last and have-not status? Are people ready for another nose dive and five premiers in ten years? Hmmmm…..
Yeah, I have no payments other than a mortgage to worry about so it is probably time for history to repeat itself and people like JGalt to find out what it is really like to live here with the NDP in power.
What’s next, a new pitch to relax rules on temporary foreign workers, say for construction labour? Shill organizations should not be able to disseminate their opinions in the news without it clearly being labelled as “sponsored content.”
My brother is looking for work here in PG he is a class 1 driver and there is no shortage of short and long haul jobs the problem is like my brother who is from the oil patch there is no shortage of truck drivers but finding one that will stay and not leave when the patch picks up again is tricky. Unfortunately that is the same pretty well across the board for any skilled labour job there is tons of work to be had right now but again lots from the patch looking and trying to find someone to stay even after the patch picks up is a crap shoot
Aww… come on folks, don’t line up and drink this Kool-Aid swill, because we all know those “help wanted jobs” are either part-time, or low paying!
Here’s the proof!
ht tp://globalnews.ca/news/2585369/jobs-are-coming-to-british-columbia-but-they-arent-full-time-ones/
Good thing we don’t live in your world then Jgalt
Well, what would be the solution of the Left to rectify that, JGalt?
I could guess, but I’d just like to confirm what I think it would be is really what it would be. Straight from “the horse’s mouth”, (or other end, as the case may be).
Very funny about the horse’s back end! Don’t be cruel and ask for doable solutions from the Left! They don’t have anything that would work in real life!
You got it. Our daughter is a professional and has been looking for a job for more the six months.
Cheers
Our daughter is 23 and just started to manage her own store in Vancouver on salary and benefits. Born and raised in PG transferred to Van and had a hard time the last 2 years working up showing the company she was worth the time. Started part time even downgrading from her full time position here in PG with the same company.
I call you on this one. It all depends on the persons discount and in a lot of provinces driving record. They do not show you how they came up with their numbers in that report but this one by Deloitte does
ht tp://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/auto/ranked-yearly-auto-insurance-costs-by-province-196447.aspx
BC here is ranked #4
Don’t drink the Galt’s koolaid!
Oops posted on the wrong article – disregard or actually read and know we are not as bad off as JGalt would have you believe
That’s OK slinky, most of us realized a long time ago that most of the time you don’t know what you are doing, or saying, anyway. ;-)
Using an article from March on Global to slag a current market survey, nice job at manipulation there JGalt.
First off the article is about job gains not vacancies which this article is about.
Second quarter results by CANSIM show full time vacancies are going up and were at 66.1% when compared to part time (I assume you know how to use the tables)
ht tp://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/160811/dq160811a-cansim-eng.htm
I took a look at your source slinky, might want to read Footnote #3 at the bottom, where it says; “The jobs could be full-time, part-time, permanent, temporary, casual, or seasonal.”
In other words, the job figures are based on a combination of all of those types of jobs… nice try though. ;-)
Have to add it here too I guess, sigh
I see you can’t use the actual tables the numbers that articles use come from
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Add in all the provinces by checking the box and you get your info on full and part time per province, not really that hard
BC 66.1% full time and footnote #3 “A full-time job is a job requiring 30 or more hours of work per week”
you are a mental case Jgalt. Piss off.
This comment isn’t appropriate.
It is purely election year hype
Ouch! The level of debate from the blindly loyal righties on this site is simply overwhelming me! ;-) bcracer has it right, this story is pure election hype!!! To anyone reading this comment, I will continue to research and expose the BC Liberal positive spin tripe being sold to us as news, please don’t be sheeple, question everything!
If I get kicked off this site, you will know why.
Even if the story is, as you say, “…election year hype”, just what IS the Left’s solution to turning “part-time, low-paying” jobs into full-time, higher paying ones? All I’ve heard is a call for raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour. Personally, though I admit everyone making minimum wage now, or even slightly more but still less than $ 15, would like to receive a wage of at least that level, how are you going to prevent all the prices this new $ 15 an hour wage are going to have to be costed into from rising? And if all other higher wages went up proportionately, which they’d soon do, because someone making $ 15 an hour now for doing ‘more’ than what is a minimum wage job would also want an increase, all that’s really happening is that everyone gets to work with bigger figures. No one has really increased their purchasing power. They may get more dollars, but each dollar they get buys less in terms of what it used to buy. How, JGalt, does this really benefit anyone?
Maybe research some NDP spin, no comparison makes for lousy copy. Easy to say something is bad when it has been worse
Stats Canada figures have nothing to do with election hype, and CFIB is Canada wide as well. Stats Canada Job Labour Survey is always a few months behind the CFIB but even their stats show we are doing well which I know you hate but them’s the facts.
Don’t worry, you won’t get kicked off! The hype from the left is great entertainment!
“A TOTAL AND COMPLETE OUTRAGE” cries John”the big dipper” Horgan from his secret undisclosed location where he has been hiding since being forced to become the leader because no one else wanted the gig.
He blamed the Christy Clark government for creating a situation where a person may have to work beyond their 35 hour work week (20 hours of actual work) to compensate for the staff vacancies. He vowed that if elected he would fix this and bring the labour force into ndp norms. “Why have two people doing the work of three when you can have two people doing the work of one” as he explained the ndp model for full employment. Expanding further he said “why have a strong and diversified economy when you can just as easily create employment by having a huge bureaucracy”
Meanwhile Horgan awaits his inevitable fate–>to join James and Dix in the blue recycling bin labeled “former and failed leaders” at the back of the ndp caucus room. Biggest problem is that Multi Materials BC has yet to come up with a useful product that they can be recycled into and are open to suggestions as the bin is full to overflowing:P
Huh, “former and failed NDP Leaders”? Ummm… yes I am so envious of the superior BC Lib/Con leadership. ;-)
ht tp://tinyurl.com/jf3bf75
Its been fun playing with you die hard righties today!
No point in posting hyperlinks in my direction as I follow the rule of only clicking on links from reliable and trusted sources….and you fail on both counts peeps.
As for the ndp leaders I think dix would be the bigger failure even though he had his butt handed to him in only one election. Turning what could have been a big victory into a massive defeat in a 28 day campaign is something that will be talked about for a very long time in BC.
Yet to be seen if Horgan can avoid the foot in mouth disease that doomed Dix. He does face the same risk of losing people to the greens of he talks about resource jobs and vise versa if he steals planks from the greens—have not paid much attention but I think its mainly tree hugging,tie dye shirts and “herbs”.
End of the day Christy is secure as premier till 2021 and beyond👍
Awww… that’s too bad “lonesome”. It links to a mug shot of BC Liberal Premier; Gordon Campbell. So how many NDP Leaders have there been that appear in police mug shots?
That brings to mind a police raid on the home and office of the premier of the province…a Clark….no no not Christy….a certain Glen Clark. Charges followed by a resignation. Got off the criminal charges but found in a conflict of interest by the conflict commissioner.
Working for Jimmy he can now build a YUGE deck.
Mike Harcourt resigned from office in 1996 as a result of the Bingogate scam run on Vancouver Island.
Anyone else see what’s happening here? This is a long way off the “BC Help Wanted” news topic. But it is the typical go to response from those on the right, can’t come up with a cogent response, attack the opposition… yawn.
Hmmm, sparrows comment was about Horgan’s response to working a full work week and you post a mug shot of Campbell on holidays and complain when other NDP premiers are brought up on their charges here in BC. Typical dipper reaction.
Wow… I only pointed out that most of those jobs are part-time or pay low wages, and provided the evidence to back up my assertions. No need to go postal, stop with the name calling and YELLING.
My goodness you loyal Christy Clark Liberal supporters get riled up easily. Most of those jobs are part-time, live with it!
ht tp://globalnews.ca/news/2585369/jobs-are-coming-to-british-columbia-but-they-arent-full-time-ones/
Well you pointed out wrong, second quarter results by CANSIM show full time vacancies are at 66.1% when compared to part time in BC
ht tp://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/160811/dq160811a-cansim-eng.htm
I took a look at your source slinky, might want to read Footnote #3 at the bottom, where it says; “The jobs could be full-time, part-time, permanent, temporary, casual, or seasonal.”
In other words, the job figures are based on a combination of all of those types of jobs… nice try though. ;-)
I see you can’t use the actual tables the numbers that articles use come from
285-0004
Select – add remove data
Add in all the provinces by checking the box and you get your info on full and part time per province, not really that hard
BC 66.1% full time and footnote #3 “A full-time job is a job requiring 30 or more hours of work per week”
You NDP nutbars are absolutely delusional. You say the province has been ‘decimated’ only because the bloated, inefficient public service unions have been reined in to something approaching reality. Try working in the real world for a change and realize just how good it is to have a vibrant free enterprise economy fully functional in this province.
I just love it when JGalt makes statements such as:
Ouch! The level of debate from the blindly loyal righties on this site is simply overwhelming me! ;-)”
In the spirit of overwhelming JGalt, I thought that I would toss out the tidbit that I just read about the current G20 Summit currently underway in China!
At the Summit, “the president of the European Commission told the G20 summit that Europe’s free trade deal with Canada is the “best and most-progressive” trade agreement the EU has ever negotiated.”
Interesting, eh? Wait it get’s better!
Canada’s new Liberal International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland has called the Canada-EU treaty a gold-plated deal that, once ratified, will give Canada better access to a market of more than 400 million people.
Are you paying attention yet?
Justin is there and in between selfie shots he’s busy pushing to have the deal ratified!
Now comes the best part!
It was the former Harper Conservative Government that negotiated the deal!
Way to go Stephen Harper!!!
ht tp://globalnews.ca/news/2920289/canada-eu-trade-deal-called-best-and-most-progressive-at-g20/
Seriously JGalt, I hope that your head doesn’t explode when you read this, haha!
Now, I’ll wait for you to raise the level of debate on this subject!
Justin and Co. are at the G20 and I’m willing to bet that they and the mainsteam media will try to manipulate the facts to make it appear that Justin and Co. are responsible for the deal, when in fact Stephen Harper and the Conservatives are clearly the ones who negotiated this trade deal and as such they are the only ones who deserve credit for this deal!
JGalt, tell me that I am wrong! Actually, please do some of your Google searching to find some of your “facts” that might suggest that I am, haha!
Stephen Harper! Come in JGalt, let’s give credit where credit is due!!
Oops, should read Come on, not Come in!
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