The Four County Labour Market Planning Board is hosting four focus groups this week to explore possible solutions to the labour and housing shortages in Grey, Bruce, Huron and Perth counties.
The shortage extends to the construction, the industrial, the mode of power, and the service sector trades.
Project Coordinator Darlene Boisevenue said the focus groups will bring employers from each county together.
"The construction trades here are really suffering and so are the motive power and the manufacturers as well are looking for licenced people or skilled people," she said.
There will be a set of questions that will be asked in each two-hour sessions.
"We'll get responses from people who are living it, who are dealing with the shortage and we'll ask, what can the government do, what can we do as a community, what are your challenges," said Boisevenue.
The focus groups meet Wednesday from ten until noon at the Central Huron Community Centre in Clinton. From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on November 13 they'll be at Arden Park Hotel in Stratford.
On November 14, from 10 a.m. until noon they'll be at the Super 8 Motel in Port Elgin, and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on November 14, they'll be at the YMCA in Owen Sound.
