About FPSC
Our Mission
FPSC builds collective action among business, labour and sector stakeholders and provides national leadership in the development of strategic responses and interventions which address current and emerging human resource and labour market issues in the forest products sector.
Our strategic focus
The Canadian forest products industry faces a number of human resource challenges. These include the need to accurately forecast labour demand and supply; increase the mobility of workers; adopt new technologies; and anticipate the challenges with an aging workforce. To address these challenges and other issues faced by the forest products industry, FPSC has identified seven strategic priorities:
- Labour market intelligence
- Transitioning workers
- Essential skills and improved workplace productivity
- Accessing under-represented workers (Aboriginal peoples, women, and foreign workers)
- Improving industry image and perceptions
- Recruiting and retaining employees
- Partnerships, training and development
- At the heart of FPSC's mandate is the necessity to address these human resource issues through partnerships and collaborative efforts.
What is the Sector Council Program?
Sector councils are industry-led partnership organizations which address skills development issues and implement solutions in key sectors of the economy …. Sector councils work to engage employers, workers, educators, professional associations and government in a strategic alliance focused on implementing solutions to the specific skills and human resource needs that will enable their sector to thrive. Sector Council Program
