Sector Study Project
This study, Renewing Canada's Greenest Workforce: A Labour Market Intelligence Report has identified key demographic trends in the forest products sector including a set of labour demand projections to 2020 and employment demographics of the most in-demand occupations on a national, regional and sub-sector level.
One of the biggest challenges ahead for sector employers will be magnitude of retirements expected on the part of the sector's large cohort of older workers. Based on current demographics and past retirement and attrition patterns it is estimated more than 50,000 workers will leave the sector. This is significant in that it represents the loss of approximately one third of the sector's current workforce during the next 10 years.
When the number of new hires, as a result of attrition, are coupled with projected recruitment needs due to economic recovery, the forecast requirement for new workers ranges from as little as 40,000 to as many as 120,000 people over the coming decade.
For the FPSC Sector Study please go to: www.fpsc-cspf.ca/sectorstudy
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