Looking for a job that is in demand, hands-on and requires less than a year of schooling? Quebec is facing a shortage of butchers and a local vocational school is trying to fix that.
The PACC Career Centre in Montreal is training the next generation of carvers in the food industry, but there aren’t enough students to meet the number of vacant jobs. The Lester B. Pearson School Board estimates that nearly 40 per cent of butchers across the province will retire in the coming decade.
“There is a lot of job openings for sure because a lot of our older butchers are retiring and the shortage in that being is that we’re not producing enough students to fill those positions,” Christina Friesen, a retail butchery teacher at the PACC Career Centre said in an interview Tuesday.
“In a way the shortage is because nobody is wanting to come in and …