Tourism HR Canada

Canadian Tourism Labour Market Snapshot: May 2023

Sector starts to accelerate into the summer season The tourism sector[1] in May 2023 saw improvement over the previous month[2], particularly in labour force and employment. It was also in a stronger position than this time last year, although unemployment was higher in May 2023 than in 2022. Unemployment was lower than in 2019, but […]

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Quality Work-Integrated Learning Relies on Quality Partnerships

By Joe Baker, Tourism HR Canada Board of Directors For as long as there have been tourism- and hospitality-focused post-secondary programs, there have been elements of work-integrated learning (WIL). Whether WIL manifested as apprenticeship, internships, practicums, or field placements, educators have known that careers in tourism and hospitality can be elevated through quality WIL experiences

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Propel Employer Stories: Melange

Created specifically for the tourism sector, the Propel Student Work Placement Program connects employers with post-secondary students looking to complete a paid work-integrated learning opportunity: a co-op placement, an internship, and more. Numerous tourism-related businesses across Canada are benefitting from these placements and the related wage subsidies, helping them emerge from the pandemic and ensure

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Sneak Peek: New Compensation, Business Intelligence Reports

Employers Get Candid About Compensation Understanding compensation is about more than just tracking dollars and cents: it’s also about the larger workplace culture against which employees assess the value of their pay. If they feel overworked and underappreciated, it will take higher wages to keep them on. If they enjoy the work and they like

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Canada Summer Jobs Program Targets Realigned

Canada Summer Jobs program update provided by Employment and Social Development Canada. Youth were among the hardest hit by the related socio-economic consequences of the pandemic and this is why the Government of Canada quickly responded by ensuring youth across the country were supported through a range of programs and services, including Canada Summer Jobs

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New Employer Agreement Templates for TFW Program

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has launched Employer Agreement sample templates for all streams under the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program. The templates were designed to lessen the administrative burden for employers and support compliance with amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations that came into force on September 26, 2022, and which

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Temporary Foreign Worker Program Wage Update

Temporary Foreign Worker Program update provided by Employment and Social Development Canada The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program uses wage data from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey to help in the administration of the Program and review of the Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA). The LMIA is in place to protect the Canadian labour market

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Propel Employer Stories: Carmen’s Group Inc.

The Propel Student Work Placement Program connects tourism employers with post-secondary students looking to complete a paid work-integrated learning opportunity: a co-op placement, an internship, and more. Over the past year and a half, numerous employers have benefitted from these placements and the related wage subsidies as they sought to recover from the pandemic and

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Enrich Your Organization by Hiring Skilled Refugees

The Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP) was created by the Government of Canada to give employers access to an untapped pool of qualified candidates to fill job openings: skilled refugees. The EMPP gives employers an avenue to address their labour market needs and empowers them to emphasize diverse representation in their organizations, while offering refugees

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