Staff in education and the health system, particularly nurses, constitute the rarest commodities for employers looking for French-speaking workers, reveals a new study.
By 2031, the teaching profession will be the profession with the most job opportunities at the French-speaking level in Ontario with an average of 1,100 positions open each year.
“The education sector is the one that receives French-speaking applications which least often correspond to the profiles sought to fill vacant positions,” notes the study carried out by the firm Brynaert, Brennan & Associé. es and commissioned by the Assembly of the Francophonie of Ontario (AFO).
By 2031, the sector that foresees the greatest labor shortage in French Ontario is health. Nurses, caregivers or orderlies, family doctors and medical specialists are all among the top 10 jobs identified with the greatest shortage in the future. Interregional mobility tops the list of elements considered critical and very important by health system respondents regarding the search for workers.
“Where the labor shortage is felt, this could be explained by the fact that employers are struggling to hire workers with the skills sought for these jobs,” we note.
This observation of labor shortage in these two sectors is not surprising, because health and education are the 2nd and 3rd markets employing the most French-speaking workers in the province with 60,305 and 42,000 workers respectively. . Eastern Ontario and Ottawa are identified as the main region lacking Francophone workers in all fields combined.
The AFO believes that in light of these findings that “the shortage of French-speaking and bilingual labor is the greatest challenge facing the sustainability of our services in French”. The organization representing Franco-Ontarians believes that political decision-makers should establish “a proactive strategy for maintaining acquired skills and competencies in sectors that will be particularly affected by retirements.” She also advocates better alignment of French-speaking immigration policies with market demands.
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