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Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2014
lAboUr bY tHe nUmbers
September 29, 2014
2/3 of employed Canadians entered their 50s with
long-term jobs (defined as jobs that lasted 12 years or
more).
$1.4 trillion the market value of Canadian employer-sponsored pension funds at the end of the first quarter of 2014, up 5.3% from the
fourth quarter of 2013
4.8% growth in pension fund investments in stocks in the first quarter
5.2% increase in the value of foreign investments held in Canadian pension funds. Pension fund revenue fell 6.9% to $39.3 billion
as a result of lower employer and employee contributions as well as reduced investment income.
Over 6.2 million Canadian workers are members of employer-sponsored pension plans
Source: Statistics Canada
74% fewer applications were submitted to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in July and
August than the same time period in 2012 after significant reforms were made.
Employment and Social Development Canada compiled the positive
labour market opinions issued in Canada in 2012, the most recent data available
202,510 positive LMOs were issued in Canada, the highest since 2009
95, 570 temporary foreign worker positions in Canada listed on positive LMOs were for men
44,240 were for women
62,700 were for unspecified workers
17,755 Temporary Foreign Worker positions in Canada listed on positive LMOs were for food counter
attendants, kitchen helpers and related occupations
17,290 were for general farm workers
16,485 were for babysitters, nannies and parents' helpers
12,255 were for harvesting labourers
11,260 were for cooks
Sources: Employment Minister Jason Kenney and Employment & Social Development Canada
Labour by the numbers
More than one-half of workers aged 55
to 64 who left long-term jobs between
1994 and 2000 were re-employed within
a decade.
EMPLOYMENT TRANSITIONS
EMPLOYER PENSION PLANS
LABOUR MARKET OPINIONS
MORE
THAN
1/2
Women
21.8%
Unspec.
31%
Men
47.2%
Men were more likely than women to be re-employed. Compared with Ontario residents, older workers in Atlantic Canada were less likely to find
work after leaving their long-term job while those in the prairie provinces and the Northwest Territories were more likely.
Source: Statistics Canada
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Positive LMOs issued
in 2012 broken down
by applicants
