THE TORONTO TRAINING BOARD

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THE TORONTO TRAINING BOARD

• The Toronto Training Board Supports Sustainable
  Jobs In A Vibrant Economy

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THE TORONTO TRAINING BOARD Making Connections

•  We are one of 21 local boards across the
  province. We connect
• People with opportunities
• Stakeholders with information
• Communities to solutions to local labour market
  issues
• Governments with on-the-ground information.

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The Local Board Network

• Local Boards provide timely leadership on local
  labour market issues.
• In the past 10 years, local boards have been
  involved in over 1,000 partnership/project
  activities.
• Across Ontario, over 450 volunteers representing
  business, labour, educators and trainers,
  Francophones, persons with disabilities,
  Aboriginals, visible minorities, youth and local
  governments work with local boards.

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What Local Boards Do

• Identify key concerns and issues in our local
  labour market(s) through the TOP research
  consultation process
• Develop partnerships to address the issues
• Produce a Trends, Opportunities and Priorities in
  Training (TOP) Report.
• The Inventory of Programs and Services, (IPS) a
  comprehensive database of programs and services
  leading to employment hosted on the 211 Ontario
  site, www.211ontario.ca

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Toronto Trends, Opportunities and Priorities
-Labour Market Issues

• Each year the TTB consults with stakeholders to
  identify the employment and training issues and
  priorities in Toronto.
• These consultations result in our Trends,
  Opportunities and Priorities (TOP) update,
  available on our website, www.ttb.on.ca
• The TOP report guides our partnerships for the
  next year.

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Trends and Issues 2007-2008

• Skills shortages
• Toronto remains a destination of choice for new
  immigrants.
• Mature workers are not leaving the labour force.
• Increasing demand for work/life balance
• High levels of youth unemployment

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Trends and Issues 2007-2008(continued)

• Loss of manufacturing jobs
• Migration of jobs away from the City of Toronto
• Growing wage and income disparity
• Lack of investment in workplace training/learning
  programs

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Facts and Figures

• Toronto is Canadas largest employment centre.
• By 2031, the Citys employment will grow by over
  1/ million jobs.
• Toronto grew faster than Montreal or Vancouver.

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Major Occupations in Toronto

• Management 139.84
• Business, Finance, Administration 285.89
• Social Science, Education, Govt. 116.35
• Sales and Service 283.89
• Primary Industry 9.27
• Manufacturing, Processing 100.11
• All numbers in the 000s

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Highlights Greater Toronto Region

• GTR largest labour market in Canada
• Between May July 2007
• Jobs in services-production rose by 108,000
• Goods production lost 22,000 jobs
• Employment rose by 20,000
• Average hourly wage rose from 20.88 in May 2006
  to 21.31 in May 2007

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Employment by Industry

• 80 of City residents work in service producing
  industries
• 14 work in manufacturing
• 11 work in professional, scientific and
  technical services

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Immigration 3 Trends

• Falling employment rates.
• Huge numbers of young immigrants are unemployed
  or underemployed.
• Recent immigrants accepting jobs that require low
  skills levels and qualifications much below
  their skills and qualifications.

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Aging Population

• Census 2006 reports that 607,025 people in the
  GTA are over the age of 65 and staying in or
  returning to the labour force.
• Skills upgrading and retraining programs are not
  in place to allow mature workers to remain in
  jobs that support their needs.

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Work/Life Balance

• More women than ever before are in the paid work
  force
• 64 of women with children under 3 are working
• 69 with children ages 3-5 are working.
• There is an increasing demand on employers for
  programs and strategies that address work/life
  balance.

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Youth Unemployment

• Youth unemployment is twice that of adults
• Those who leave school early, before finishing
  grade 12, have difficulty moving ahead in the
  labour market.
• Youth have disproportionately low literacy levels.

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Manufacturing Losses

• 100,000 jobs in manufacturing are gone from the
  GTA.
• The rise of the Canadian dollar, changes to trade
  agreements, and technology changes are the
  reasons for the loss of jobs.

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Investment in Training

• Employers are not investing in programs to
  upgrade and retool their employees
• Recent report by TD Financial Group says that the
  last 10 years of a strong economy wasted due to
  lack of investment.

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Growing Wage and Income Gaps

• Greater levels of poverty are found in inner
  suburbs
• Number of poor families in Toronto increased by
  69 from 1981 to 2001.
• Only Toronto is facing this issue. The rest of
  the Toronto CMA has only one high poverty
  neighbourhood.

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Jobs Leaving Toronto

• Close to 100,000 jobs have gone from the 416 to
  the 905
• Suburbs showed 120 increase in jobs
• Torontos share of GTA employment will go from
  55.5 in 1996 to 44.4 by 2030.

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What do you think?

• 1. Which of these issues is most pressing?
• Why?
• How do they affect your work? Your organization?
  Your planning?
• 2. What initiatives do you know about that are
  addressing these issues?
• Who is involved?
• 3. What role can the Toronto Training Board play?
  With what partners?

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For more information

• Please visit
• www.ttb.on.ca
• http//www.toronto.ca/torontoplan/pdf/flash_sec6.p
  df
• Toronto City Planning Division. Policy Research,
  The Toronto Office Market, April 2006
  http//www.toronto.ca/demographics/pdf/2005officem
  arket.pdf
• Jeffrey G. Reitz, Tapping Immigrants Skills
  New Directions for Canadian Immigration Policy in
  the Knowledge Economy, IRPP Vol. 11, no. 1,
  February 2005 http//www.irpp.org/choices/archive/
  vol11no1.pdf
• United Way, Strong Neighborhoods Task Force, A
  Call to Action...2005, http//www.unitedwaytoront
  o.com/who_we_help/pdfs/SNTFweb_report.pdfsearch
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