Programs and policy development

Employment and social development programs and policies and activities related to their development to support the Government of Canada. This includes consultations, frameworks, plans and research.

Programs

Skills and employment

• Apprenticeship Service
• Community Workforce Development Program
• Employment Insurance
• Labour Market Development Agreements
• Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities
• Youth Employment and Skills Strategy
• Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities
• Indigenous Skills and Employment Training program
• Skills and Partnership Fund
• Job Bank and Labour Market Information
• Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program
• The Office of Skills for Success
• Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship (Red Seal Program)
• Student Work Placement Program
• The Innovative Work-Integrated Learning Initiative
• Apprenticeship Grants
• Foreign Credential Recognition Program
• Temporary Foreign Worker Program
• Union Training and Innovation Program
• Skilled Trades Awareness and Readiness Program
• Women's Employment Readiness pilot program
• Workforce Development Agreements
• Work-Sharing Program

Learning

• Canada Education Savings Program
• Canada Student Financial Assistance Program
• Supports for Student Learning Program
• Canada Service Corps

Labour

• Federal Workers' Compensation Service
• International Labour Affairs
• Labour Relations
• Labour Standards
• Occupational Health and Safety
• Wage Earner Protection Program
• Workplace equity

Income security

• Canada Disability Savings Program
• Canada Pension Plan
• Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefits
• Old Age Security

Social development

• Canadian Benefit for Parents of Young Victims of Crime
• Enabling Accessibility Fund
• Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness Strategy
• Social Development Partnerships Program

Service network supporting government departments

• Government of Canada Telephone General Enquiries Services
• Government of Canada Internet Presence
• In-Person Points of Service
• Benefits Delivery Modernization programme

Delivery of services for other Government of Canada programs

• Passport
• Other government department programs

Policy initiatives

• Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy
• Early Learning and Child Care
• Future Skills
• Guidance on accessibility plans
• Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care
• Making an accessible Canada for people with disabilities
• Social Innovation and Social Finance
• Supporting Canadians with disabilities – Bill C-22, the Canada Disability Benefit Act
• Taking action on the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development