Supplementary information

Corporate information

Organizational profile

Appropriate minister[s]:

The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos

The Honourable Patty Hajdu

The Honourable Carla Qualthrough

The Honourable Filomena Tassi

Institutional head:

Leslie MacLean, Acting Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Development

Ministerial portfolio:

Minister of Families, Children and Social Development

Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour

Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Accessibility

Minister of Seniors

Enabling instrument[s]:

Department of Employment and Social Development Act (S.C. 2005, c. 34); ^{Footnote 1} additional information on acts and regulations can be found on the Employment and Social Development Canada website ^{Footnote 2}.

Year of incorporation / commencement: 2005

Other: For more information on the Department’s role, please visit the Employment and Social Development Canada website. ^{Footnote 3}

Reporting Framework

The Employment and Social Development Strategic Outcomes and Program Alignment Architecture of record for 2017–18 are shown below.

• 1. Strategic Outcome: Government-wide service excellence
  • 1.1 Program: Service Network Supporting Government Departments
    • 1.1.1 Sub-Program: Government of Canada Telephone General Services
    • 1.1.2 Sub-Program: Government of Canada Internet Presence
    • 1.1.3 Sub-Program: In-Person Points of Service
  • 1.2 Program: Delivery of Services for Other Government of Canada Programs
    • 1.2.1 Sub-Program: Passport
    • 1.2.2 Sub-Program: Other Government Department Programs
• 2. Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour Market
  • 2.1 Program: Skills and Employment
    • 2.1.1 Sub-Program: Employment Insurance
    • 2.1.2 Sub-Program: Labour Market Development Agreements
    • 2.1.3 Sub-Program: Canada Job Fund Agreements
    • 2.1.4 Sub-Program: Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities
    • 2.1.5 Sub-Program: Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities
    • 2.1.6 Sub-Program: Youth Employment Strategy
    • 2.1.7 Sub-Program: Targeted Initiative for Older Workers
    • 2.1.8 Sub-Program: Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities
    • 2.1.9 Sub-Program: Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy
    • 2.1.10 Sub-Program: Skills and Partnership Fund
    • 2.1.11 Sub-Program: First Nations Job Fund
    • 2.1.12 Sub-Program: Job Bank
    • 2.1.13 Sub-Program: Sectoral Initiatives Program
    • 2.1.14 Sub-Program: Literacy and Essential Skills
    • 2.1.15 Sub-Program: Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship (Red Seal Program)
    • 2.1.16 Sub-Program: Apprenticeship Grants
    • 2.1.17 Sub-Program: Foreign Credential Recognition Program
    • 2.1.18 Sub-Program: Temporary Foreign Worker Program
    • 2.1.19 Sub-Program: Student Work-Integrated Learning Program
  • 2.2 Program: Learning
    • 2.2.1 Sub-Program: Canada Student Loans and Grants and Canada Apprentice Loans Program
    • 2.2.2 Sub-Program: Canada Education Savings Program
• 3. Strategic Outcome: Safe, healthy, fair and inclusive work environments and cooperative workplace relations
  • 3.1 Program: Labour
    • 3.1.1 Sub-Program: Labour Relations
    • 3.1.2 Sub-Program: Workplace Health and Safety
      • 3.1.2.1 Sub-Sub-Program: Occupational Health and Safety
      • 3.1.2.2 Sub-Sub-Program: Federal Workers’ Compensation
    • 3.1.3 Sub-Program: Labour Standards and Equity
      • 3.1.3.1 Sub-Sub-Program: Labour Standards
      • 3.1.3.2 Sub-Sub-Program: Workplace Equity
      • 3.1.3.3 Sub-Sub-Program: Wage Earner Protection Program
    • 3.1.4 Sub-Program: International Labour Affairs
• 4. Strategic Outcome: Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities
  • 4.1 Program: Income Security
    • 4.1.1 Sub-Program: Old Age Security
    • 4.1.2 Sub-Program: Canada Pension Plan
    • 4.1.3 Sub-Program: Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefits
    • 4.1.4 Sub-Program: Canada Disability Savings Program
    • 4.1.5 Sub-Program: National Child Benefit
  • 4.2 Program: Social Development
    • 4.2.1 Sub-Program: Homelessness Partnering Strategy
    • 4.2.2 Sub-Program: Social Development Partnerships Program
      • 4.2.2.1 Sub-Sub-Program: Children and Families
      • 4.2.2.2 Sub-Sub-Program: Disability
    • 4.2.3 Sub-Program: New Horizons for Seniors Program
    • 4.2.4 Sub-Program: Universal Child Care Benefit
    • 4.2.5 Sub-Program: Enabling Accessibility Fund
    • 4.2.6 Sub-Program: Federal Income Support for Parents of Murdered or Missing Children
• Internal Services

Supporting Information on Lower-Level Programs

Supporting information on ESDC’s lower-level programs is available on GC InfoBase. ^{Footnote 4}

Supplementary Information Tables

The following supplementary information tables are available on ESDC’s website:

• Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy
• Details on transfer payment programs of $5 million or more
• Horizontal initiatives
• Internal audits
• Response to parliamentary committees and external audits
• Supporting information on lower level programs
• Fees
• Status report on projects operating with specific Treasury Board approval
• Status report on transformational and major Crown projects
• Evaluations

Federal tax expenditures

The tax system can be used to achieve public policy objectives through the application of special measures such as low tax rates, exemptions, deductions, deferrals and credits. The Department of Finance Canada publishes cost estimates and projections for these measures each year in the Report on Federal Tax Expenditures ^{Footnote 5}. This report also provides detailed background information on tax expenditures, including descriptions, objectives, historical information and references to related federal spending programs. The tax measures presented in this report are the responsibility of the Minister of Finance.

Organizational contact information

Head Office

140 Promenade du Portage, Phase IV
Gatineau, Quebec  K1A 0J9
Canada

Telephone: 1-800-622-6232
Toll-free: 1-800-622-6232

Website: Employment and Social Development Canada ^{Footnote 6}

Email: NC-SPR-PSR-CPMD-DPMG-GD