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Propel Employer Stories: Roadside Hospitality

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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 accompanying wage subsidies, helping to ensure they have a skilled team […]

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Tourism HR Canada Congratulates New Federal Cabinet

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On July 26, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced changes to the members of the federal cabinet. Seven new ministers were appointed, while 23 ministers saw a change to their portfolios; eight ministers remained in their portfolios. Tourism HR Canada congratulates the newly appointed ministers and those who take on a new portfolio. The organization looks

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Workplace Culture and Compensation: Insights from Operators

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As the tourism sector continues to adjust to the shifting post-pandemic labour landscape, compensation is one of the variables that business operators are grappling with. This includes wages, but also encompasses a wider range of business practices, from perks and benefits to the kind the culture a workplace fosters. This broader sense of ‘compensation’ is

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Secure Futures: New MOU Links Skilled Refugees and Tourism Employers

Employer Programs, HR Practices, Immigration Programs /

Tourism HR Canada is pleased to announce it has signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB), an implementing partner of the Government of Canada’s Economic Mobility Pathway Pilot (EMPP). Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB) envisions a world where forcibly displaced people can use their skills and talents to move to secure

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Joining Voices to Eliminate Workplace Harassment

HR Practices, Leadership, LGBTQ2, Make Safe, Mental Health /

As part of our work around the recently launched Make Safe program, Tourism HR Canada is connecting with other organizations offering programming that aims to mitigate—and ultimately eliminate—sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence in tourism and hospitality workplaces. SHAPE is a coalition of 20 Ontario community legal clinics providing free public legal education

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Temporary Foreign Workers and Work Stoppages

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Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has shared the following information to help employers understand their responsibilities towards temporary foreign workers affected by work stoppage situations, as it relates to their obligations under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Program requirements stipulate that employers hiring temporary foreign workers must provide these workers with full-time work, defined

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Canadian Tourism Labour Market Snapshot: June 2023

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As Tourism Demand Ramps Up, So Does Employment With the demand for tourism rising as summer heats up, employment in the sector has also been on the rise. Overall, the sector[1] in June saw across-the-board improvement over the previous month[2], with increases in both labour force and employment, and a slight decrease in unemployment. Compared

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Propel Employer Stories: 9 Mile Legacy Brewing

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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 accompanying wage subsidies, helping to ensure they have a skilled team

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Filling in the Blanks: Working Around Hard-to-Source Data

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With the current and ongoing demographic shifts in the Canadian population, many sectors—including tourism—are increasingly turning to immigration to meet their labour needs. Governments are trying to address these changing needs by adjusting immigration policies, including recent changes to some of the programs that bring international talent temporarily into the Canadian labour force (e.g., the

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Tourism HR Canada Applauds Workforce Focus of Federal Tourism Growth Strategy

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July 4, 2023 (Ottawa, Ontario) – The Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, today announced the Government of Canada’s new Federal Tourism Growth Strategy, highlighting key priorities and targets to enhance the visitor economy. Given the widespread labour challenges faced by tourism operators across the country, Tourism HR Canada is

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