A shortage of foodservice and housekeeping workers has B.C.'s $9.8-billion tourism and hospitality sector worried.
So much so that operators have launched an aggressive international recruitment campaign that is delivering Filipino workers to Vancouver Island's west coast.
"Worker shortage is a crisis, not just a challenge," says Charles McDiarmid, managing director of Tofino's up-market Wickaninnish Inn. "The entire 2006 season we spent thousands of dollars advertising for workers in Canada. There was not a day [in 2006] that we were not actively recruiting. But we were still chronically short between 10 and 20 workers."
"We hope to bring a number of Filipinos over [to Tofino] so they can establish camaraderie and a system of support." ... full story here
So much so that operators have launched an aggressive international recruitment campaign that is delivering Filipino workers to Vancouver Island's west coast.
"Worker shortage is a crisis, not just a challenge," says Charles McDiarmid, managing director of Tofino's up-market Wickaninnish Inn. "The entire 2006 season we spent thousands of dollars advertising for workers in Canada. There was not a day [in 2006] that we were not actively recruiting. But we were still chronically short between 10 and 20 workers."
"We hope to bring a number of Filipinos over [to Tofino] so they can establish camaraderie and a system of support." ... full story here
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