While employers paying for training may work in economies were there is a high level of worker loyalty, in Canada and the States, people change jobs frequently.

While employers paying for training may work in economies were there is a high level of worker loyalty, in Canada and the States, people change jobs frequently. Thus, the employer wouldn't get to keep the benefit of the training often, because the employee would leave to work for a employer who pays high wages because it didn't pay for the training.