As stated, we know that there is vast overqualification of immigrant women working as personal support workers in long-term care. Some figures estimate as many as 44% of caregivers worked as nurses prior to migrating to Canada and, according to a Statistics Canada report, 67% of nursing graduates from the Philippines are considered to be overqualified for their current jobs.
Based on the research that I've done in trying to unpack this labour market mismatch, we know that the process of transferring credentials needs to be accelerated. It needs to be faster, it needs to be easier and it needs to be more affordable. Many of these women are sending remittances to their home countries, are working multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet and are supporting families, and the current process does not allow them the time or the financial means to go about upgrading their skills. This leads to quantifiable downward labour market mobility relative to other workers, as well as being stuck in precarious working conditions.
I think there's a lot of work to be done to reduce the barriers these women experience to their working in the jobs for which they were trained in their home countries.