About Labour Marketing Information (LMI)
Labour Market Information Analysis
Food Processing Skills Canada has been conducting general and subsector analysis of labour market information for the food and beverage manufacturing industry in Canada for many years. The insights have been vital to understanding the labour environment and designing solutions that support people and businesses.
Knowledge is Power
Labour market information is key to addressing the pressing employment, training, and upskilling needs of Canada’s food and beverage manufacturing industry. Acting swiftly is essential for the industry to seize emerging global market opportunities. Beyond this, the potential benefits for Canada are immense, including job creation and the economic growth driven by thriving businesses.
To address real-time labour challenges faced by food and beverage manufacturers across Canada and enhance its research and analysis efforts, FPSC launched Rapid Results. This initiative utilized an Employer Opinion Panel to collect insights on key labour issues and business pain points. The findings were compiled into comprehensive reports and shared with industry stakeholders to support informed decision-making.
Labour Market Information & Workforce Solutions Brochure
How Labour Market Information Guides Workforce Solutions:
Our talent attraction and retention initiatives spotlight the diverse career opportunities in the food and beverage manufacturing industry, ensuring a strong pipeline of skilled professionals to offset the anticipated workforce gaps from retirements over the next decade.
- Indigenous Canadians make up about 3% of the workforce, though they make up 11% of the seafood packaging and processing workforce. Visible minorities account for just over one-quarter (28%) of the food and beverage processing workforce, slightly higher than the proportion working in the overall manufacturing sector (23%).
- The majority (65%) of the workforce is aged between 25 and 54. A large section of the workforce (31%) consists of new Canadians, with most of them having arrived in Canada between 1991 and 2010, while more recent new Canadians (those who arrived in the five years since 2011) make up five per cent of the workforce..
- Overall, the majority of workers in the industry are labourers (56%) with other positions including supervisors, process control, machine operators, industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers, testers, and graders.
- The food and beverage workforce employs 270,000+ Canadians across five generations.
- The food and beverage industry has a vacancy rate of 3.8% which is greater than the vacancy rate of the manufacturing industry as a whole (3%).
- A large section of the workforce (24%) is made up of people eligible for retirement in the next 10 years, and since the industry is constantly growing, skilled workers are in high demand.
