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Small Businesses In Vancouver Having Trouble Finding Workers
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Greg Carr
Oct 20, 2017, 1:34:14 PM10/20/17
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Small businesses in Vancouver are having difficulty hiring and
retaining staff.
One Vancouver bagel shop, Solly’s Bagels, has even had to close one of
its locations for a month.
Speaking with CKNW’s Simi Sara on Thursday, owner Leah Markovitch said
the situation is very bad.
“It’s the worst point we’ve ever been at short labour in Vancouver.
What I call it, is a perfect storm,” she said.
“We’re running on two people and we are not able to be critical of the
quality of our workers because those are the only workers we have. The
customers complain, but I can’t do any better,” Markovitch said.
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We had to close our Eastside shop early today due to staff shortages.
We're sorry for the inconvenience. West and Yukon are open!
2:36 PM - Sep 21, 2017
Markovitch cited affordability costs, fewer people interested in
kitchen work and a lack of foreign workers as reasons for the
shortage.
“Cancellation of the foreign workers program in 2014 was very hard on
us. They cut front-counter service and low skilled jobs.”
Markovitch said Solly’s pays a living wage of $15 an hour and after a
month of training, it increases to $18 an hour.
She said re-introducing the Temporary Foreign Worker program would be
a good start, but labour market analyst Christian Saint Cyr told Simi
Sara he believes otherwise.
The author of the BC Labour Market Report said the program was only a
short-term solution.
“There’s this fundamental belief among a lot of employers that the
quality of workers that’s available isn’t particularly good,” Saint
Cyr said.
“I struggle with that to a certain degree. I think historically
employers like McDonald’s would mentor people. They would teach them
what it was to work.”
That mentorship is something that’s missing in the labour market
today, Saint Cyr said.
He added that employers need to steer away from traditional ways of
attracting employees such as job boards and advertisements and
actively recruit staff instead.
“Employers need to be flexible as well and think differently.”
“A lot of times people have transportation issues, they have daycare
issues, they have disabilities they are trying to overcome,” Saint Cyr
said.
“The feedback I get from them is that employers aren’t willing to
accommodate those challenges.”
He said that while young people need to learn what is expected of
them, employers need to rethink relationship building, not just
hiring.
© 2017 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3814680/labour-shortage-vancouver-bagel-shop/
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I say no to the Foreign Worker Program. So a bagel shop has to close
down it is not like the owner will be forced to go on welfare.
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retaining staff.
One Vancouver bagel shop, Solly’s Bagels, has even had to close one of
its locations for a month.
Speaking with CKNW’s Simi Sara on Thursday, owner Leah Markovitch said
the situation is very bad.
“It’s the worst point we’ve ever been at short labour in Vancouver.
What I call it, is a perfect storm,” she said.
“We’re running on two people and we are not able to be critical of the
quality of our workers because those are the only workers we have. The
customers complain, but I can’t do any better,” Markovitch said.
Follow
Solly's Bagelry @SollysBagelry
We had to close our Eastside shop early today due to staff shortages.
We're sorry for the inconvenience. West and Yukon are open!
2:36 PM - Sep 21, 2017
Markovitch cited affordability costs, fewer people interested in
kitchen work and a lack of foreign workers as reasons for the
shortage.
“Cancellation of the foreign workers program in 2014 was very hard on
us. They cut front-counter service and low skilled jobs.”
Markovitch said Solly’s pays a living wage of $15 an hour and after a
month of training, it increases to $18 an hour.
She said re-introducing the Temporary Foreign Worker program would be
a good start, but labour market analyst Christian Saint Cyr told Simi
Sara he believes otherwise.
The author of the BC Labour Market Report said the program was only a
short-term solution.
“There’s this fundamental belief among a lot of employers that the
quality of workers that’s available isn’t particularly good,” Saint
Cyr said.
“I struggle with that to a certain degree. I think historically
employers like McDonald’s would mentor people. They would teach them
what it was to work.”
That mentorship is something that’s missing in the labour market
today, Saint Cyr said.
He added that employers need to steer away from traditional ways of
attracting employees such as job boards and advertisements and
actively recruit staff instead.
“Employers need to be flexible as well and think differently.”
“A lot of times people have transportation issues, they have daycare
issues, they have disabilities they are trying to overcome,” Saint Cyr
said.
“The feedback I get from them is that employers aren’t willing to
accommodate those challenges.”
He said that while young people need to learn what is expected of
them, employers need to rethink relationship building, not just
hiring.
© 2017 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3814680/labour-shortage-vancouver-bagel-shop/
==============================================================================================================
I say no to the Foreign Worker Program. So a bagel shop has to close
down it is not like the owner will be forced to go on welfare.
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