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The Algoma Workforce Investment Corporation is again asking employers to complete a survey as its puts together its 3rd annual report on local workforce issues and challenges.  The survey closes on November 25th and a new report will be available early in the new year.
The Executive Director of the group Jonathan Coulman says area employers have had to deal with an aging workforce combined with a declining population.
Coulman says a telling stat is our region’s Labour Force Replacement Ratio…

 

Last year the Algoma Workforce Investment Corporation heard from 190 employers…

 

Coulman adds there are around 2-thousand employers in the region that employee at least 2 workers.