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Recent Skilled Trades News & Reports
The Career Foundation’s Workforce Development Centre provides labour market information, sector trends and initiatives, and workforce development planning opportunities to address labour market needs for our communities. See below for recent Skilled Trades Sector news and reports.
COVID-19 News — Skilled Trades Sector
Small Business, Big Impact: How SMEs are Pivoting During COVID-19
Trade Apprentices Will Help Our Post COVID-19 Recovery: We Need to Do More to Keep Them in Work
Province Providing Training and Support for Hospitality Workers & Skilled Trade Apprentices
Skilled Trades Sector Reports
Trading Up: Equipping Ontario Trades with the Skills of the Future
“The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) received support from the Government of Ontario to conduct a study on the skill gaps and training needs for skilled trades for the construction of energy-efficient, high-performing buildings in Ontario. CaGBC partnered with Mohawk College, mcCallumSather, The Cora Group and The City of Toronto to complete this study. Within the continuous process of structural economic change, the transition to a low-carbon economy will deeply impact all economic activity. It will inevitably bring about changes in sectors and occupations, and therefore in workforce skills and competencies. This study starts with the observation that, to date, insufficient attention has been paid to how the labour market must adapt to meet these challenges.”
Retaining Employees in the Skilled Trades
“Job Talks specializes in work-related research and media production, with a focus on better understanding and marketing the skilled trades. In collaboration with Q.i. Value Systems Inc. and its proprietary “deep dive” methodology, we investigated the emotions felt by construction industry workers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), how they perceive themselves as workers, what is keeping them in their jobs, and what might cause them to leave. The result is one of the most comprehensive studies of any group of workers in Ontario.”
Infrastructure Skills: Knowledge, Tools, and Training to Increase Opportunity
“This report expands on previous analyses to describe the skills needed to fill infrastructure occupations nationally … A wide variety of knowledge, tools and technologies, and education and training is often required in these occupations. Ultimately, since millions of workers in infrastructure occupations earn competitive wages and need to be replaced over the next decade, they represent a crucial segment of the workforce when it comes to expanding economic opportunity and require targeted workforce development strategies from public, private, and civic leaders across the country.”
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