Harrowing stories of overworked front-line workers and understaffed hospitals have dominated the news cycle throughout much of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But despite the growing need for health care professionals, job vacancies in the sector are on the rise, according to the latest data from Statistic Canada.
Job vacancies in health care and social assistance went up by 36,400, or 56.9 per cent, during the last quarter of 2020, bringing vacancies to a “record high” of 100,300, the data, published Tuesday, showed.
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