{"id":68754,"date":"2021-11-17T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=68754"},"modified":"2021-12-03T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:30:58","slug":"businesses-weigh-in-on-labour-shortages-on-cortes-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/businesses-weigh-in-on-labour-shortages-on-cortes-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses weigh in on labour shortages on Cortes Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor's Note: Greg Osoba works at Cortes Natural Food Co-op.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staff shortages in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/these-canadian-industries-are-currently-facing-the-biggest-labour-shortages-1.5612004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retail and hospitality sectors<\/a> have been exacerbated during the pandemic in both urban and rural communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CKTZ News reached out to Cortes Island business owners and workers for their perspectives. Common issues they raised include a shrinking labour pool, affordable and available housing and an economy reliant on seasonal workers to meet the demand of summer residents and tourists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pre-pandemic, over the past several years, Cortes Island has seen a steady increase in visitors \u2014 from curious adventurers to retirees, to those fleeing high cost city life who can work remotely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Retail and hospitality jobs have been created to meet increasing tourism demand yet the labour shortages remain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full CKTZ story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Greg Osoba works at Cortes Natural Food Co-op.\u00a0 Staff shortages in the retail and hospitality sectors have been exacerbated during the pandemic in both urban and rural communities.\u00a0 CKTZ News reached out to Cortes Island business owners and workers for their perspectives. Common issues they raised include a shrinking labour pool, affordable and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":68756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57],"tags":[714,10608,9459,10606,571,2655,10607],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68754"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=68754"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=68754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}