COMM 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Baby Boomers, Trade Union, Human Capital
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Labor market issues: economic conditions e. g. labor force, labor market, productivity levels, growth of the service sector and the concept of human capital*" (knowledge, education, training, skills and expertise of a firm"s workers, labor union movement, use of contingent/part time employees, **due to a lot of underground market (huge proportion of population is not in the labor force, demographic trends, population growth (impact of immigration, age (baby boomers, sandwich generation, gen x & y, workplace diversity, visible and ethnic minorities: growth due to immigration, women: growing force in the labor market, aboriginal people difficulty in obtaining and keeping jobs, persons with disabilities: problem with accessibility continue, technology. Increase in technical/ professional jobs: decrease in traditional blue collar (factory/labor) jobs, labor force training has not kept pace, concern about job displacement and health hazards, right to privacy and ethical issues, government legislation, ensure policies and practices comply with new and changing laws covering:
