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Service sector turns to foreign workers

Date

2007-01-15

Authors

Shannon Klie

Abstract

The labour market in Alberta and British Columbia is in a crisis and the service sector is startint to do like the construction and the oil sectors and hire foreign workers from Mexico and Philippines. Restaurants and hotels do it. This, way, they have access to qualified workers and they can pay them the industry minimum.

Newspaper title

Canadian HRReporter - The national journal of Human Rsource Management

Economic sectors

Occupations in services - Domestic work, Management occupations - general, and Food and beverage servers

Geographical focuses

Alberta and British Columbia

Languages

English