Employers in N.B. communities turn to retired people to ease labour shortage

A year after retirement, Maryse Clavet was eager to get out of the house and back to work. 

She picked up a part-time job at a local bed-and-breakfast, doing everything from changing the sheets to checking in guests at the front desk.

“I’m still young, I’m able to work,” Clavet said in French. “There’s such a lack of workers in the region that I can’t stay home when there’s people that need me,” she said in French.

Clavet, 52, retired early after a 32-year career with UNI Cooperation Financiere in Edmundston. She started as a teller at age 19, working her way through