Marcel Vander Wier for HRReporter writes, “in the midst of a growing labour shortage, more companies are looking to refugees to flesh out talent pools, according to experts.
“Both Canada and the United States have a long tradition of resettling refugees and the motivation for the Canadian government to do so has in principle been humanitarian,” said Gideon Maltz, executive director of the Tent Partnership for Refugees in New York. “But what the government and companies have found increasingly over time is that (refugees) are also real economic assets and really contribute to the economy.”
An Employer’s Guidebook to Fostering Inclusion for Refugee Employees draws on research from 90 private companies in North America, Europe and Australia.
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