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OfflineJeanine Lassaline-Berglund

Chatham Kent EMC Members Facing Labour Shortage

By Jeanine Lassaline-Berglund

Recruiting the right skill is a challenge, let alone building a retention strategy!

web-Skills-shortage.jpgCK Manufacturers met to discuss their workforce challenges and immediate and longer term resource needs.  Many are struggling today with finding the right skill sets for their organizations and have started to recruit from outside of the area to find the next member of the team.  As part of the round table discussion, the participants reviewed potential reasons why Chatham Kent is facing this shortage. For many, manufacturing had been the lifeblood of this community, and like many other…

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OfflineJeanine Lassaline-Berglund

Chatham Kent & Windsor Essex EMC Members Review SR&ED

By Jeanine Lassaline-Berglund

Member companies gathered to take an in-depth look at the review process of the SR&ED program and how Canadian manufacturers can prepare for a SR&ED review.

web-SR&ED-Review-Image.jpgTilbury, ON, EMC members quickly got to the discussion of what is really impacting each of their organizations when it comes to the review process when claiming SR & ED.  Most feel that the claims process is getting more and more difficult as the program matures.  Changes in the interpretation of claimable costs and allowable activities really puts some organizations in a difficult position as most do not have full-time resources solely dedicated to understanding and working on SR&ED.

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