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I'm again amazed by headlines of labour shortages causing businesses much distress.
What exists is a shortage of businesses offering a satisfactory compensation and work environment.
The only power that employees have, especially those in the lower echelons of the economic ladder, is the demand for employees that is greater than the supply.
Govt usually implements policies catering to employers to continue offering cheap labour. If there exists a labour supply shortage of 5% per se in a specific sector, government policies tend fill this gap without employers raising wages, then 100% of the employees are adversely affected. The use of temporary foreign workers in agriculture is a prime example.
Those of the political stripe know that a majority of the 40% of the electorate that never votes are in the low income demographic, and therefore cater to higher income individuals who do vote.
I believe that there are too many restaurants in existence today, and they do not all deserve to exist due only to the continued use of modern day slave labour.
Ironically, let supply and demand free market doctrine rule the day for employees, just like Conservatives themselves espouse.
Rob Hopkins, Osoyoos
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