Swimming classes cancelled: no workers
The Olympic park has had to cancel swimming and diving lessons this summer because there aren’t enough lifeguards, a problem that’s affecting pools and beaches all over town.
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JaneyB 17:53 on 2022-06-10 Permalink
There’s no such thing as labour shortages, only shortages at the current pay rate. Supply-and-demand works for labour as well as for consumer items. I do not understand this common handwringing plaint.
mare 18:58 on 2022-06-10 Permalink
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Pay rate is one issue, but there are other. Filling unskilled labour positions is hard, because most people *are* skilled. And a lot of job openings are for skilled people with experience, who are also hard to find, however much you pay them (when union contracts even allow that). It requires that the jobs in your sector are interesting enough for people to *become* skilled by choosing to study for them and get experience by doing internships or apprenticeships. It requires an investment of the candidates and employers are competing with other sectors that *also* have a lot of open positions and are considered, for example, more interesting, easier to learn, have more regular hours or are not as hard on your body.
nau 22:33 on 2022-06-10 Permalink
To be a lifeguard, you have to take specific courses. A lot of those courses didn’t happen during the pandemic, so a cohort of potential lifeguards has likely been lost. Which is not to say that like many jobs, lifeguarding couldn’t be better paying.