Immigrant professionals hitting Toronto’s glass ceiling for job market
Immigrant professionals hitting Toronto’s glass ceiling for job market
While newcomer unemployment rates in the Greater Toronto Area are at an all-time low, too many immigrant professionals are unable to move up to executive and c-suite level positions, a new report has found.
The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) report, Building a Corporate Ladder for All, found that despite immigrants making up some 50 per cent of the Greater Toronto Area’s (GTA) population, these same groups comprise just six per cent of senior leadership positions across the public, private and non-profit sectors.
The November report analyzes the profiles of 659 executives from 69 organizations across the GTA, compiling insights around how the situation got to this point.
Margaret Eaton, executive director of TRIEC, notes that the goal should be to build a corporate ladder that everyone in the region, including newcomers, can climb.
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