Employers are being urged to raise wages and cover training costs to further incentivize people to work as lifeguards
Cities across Canada are struggling to find enough lifeguard staff to keep their pools and beaches open, as the national organization that certifies lifeguards urges employers to raise wages and cover training costs to further incentivize people to take the jobs.
Barbara Byers, president of the Lifesaving Society, which trains and accredits lifeguards across Canada, said three years of the pandemic have created a logjam in the training system, and that there is a shortage not only of new lifeguards, but also of the instructors who teach lifeguards. The labour participation rate among teenagers is slowly recovering after it dropped to just 43.9 per cent in 2020
“We would certainly support municipalities recognizing the skills and training that a person has to have to be a lifeguard, and putting a financial value on that,” she said. The City of Vancouver said it is in the final stages of introducing a pilot project that would do that.
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