Labour market challenges

• Need for sectoral input and perspectives re: workers, what's required and what's available
• Retention of workers in PEI (young and old)
• Recruitment and retention of workers
• Outsourcing of work

Labour market strategy / Collaborative action

• Managing change
• "Many hats are better than one"
• Learn and relay findings to national organizations
• Inform the next government
• Strategic plan re: labour shortages
• Good labour market profile of PEI
• Latest and greatest thinking about collaboration across sectors
• Understanding issues in PEI
• Ways for business and labour to go to government as a united force; find common ground
• People don't think there's an issue - need to raise the issue's profile
• Role of NGO's
• Business willingness to "do something about it"

Immigration

• Newcomers - skilled and unskilled

Youth

• Youth require skills to sustain a good lifestyle
• Young people do not consider trades,
• Youth and lifelong learning

Education and training

• Learning in the workplace, especially literacy
• Essential skills/continued learning
• Challenges for colleges are two-fold - keeping/hiring staff, and providing skills for industry
• Role of adult education and lifelong learning in skills development
• Skills upgrading
• Literacy

Poverty

• Liveable income and working conditions
• Meaningful wages
• The need for modern, real solutions to address poverty

Demographic

• Aging population issues