EI Monitoring and Assessment Report 2012 Annex 3 — EBSMs Data Tables

Annex 3.1 Overview of Labour Market Development Agreements

¹ Funds that are transferred to cover administrative costs are not included in the amounts. Please refer to Annex 3.12 for administrative costs.

² LMDA funds allocated to the provinces and territories under the Economic Action Plan (EAP) totalled $1 billion over two years.

Annex 3.2 Employment Insurance (EI) Part II - General Definitions

Eligibility for Employment Benefits and Support Measures (EBSMs) or Similar Programs Funded Under Part II

To be eligible for Employment Benefits, individuals must be unemployed and have a current Employment Insurance (EI) claim as an “active EI client” or a claim that ended in the preceding three years as a “former EI client.” Those who began a maternity or parental claim in the preceding five years, after which they left the labour market to care for their newborn or newly adopted children, also qualify as former EI clients and are eligible for Employment Benefits upon re-entry into the labour market. Unemployed individuals who are neither active nor former EI clients are considered “non-insured” and are eligible to participate in Employment Assistance Services as well as self-services provided by the National Employment Service.

Labour Market Development Agreements (LMDAs)

LMDAs provide the frameworks within which EBSM delivery takes place. EBSMs are flexible by design, allowing provincial and territorial jurisdictions (P/Ts) to develop and deliver programs that respond to local and regional labour market needs. With the implementation of the Canada-Yukon LMDA on February 1, 2010, all provinces and territories are now fully responsible for the design and delivery of programs similar to EBSMs established under Part II of the EI Act. In support of these activities, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) transfers LMDA funding to the provinces and territories and focuses on accountability, evaluation and ongoing policy development. HRSDC also delivers Pan-Canadian programming and maintains, in partnership with the provinces and territories, specific projects and activities in the national interest under Part II of the EI Act. Canada retains responsibility for the delivery of insurance benefits under Part I of the EI Act and for the aspects of labour market development reflective of national interests. For more information on LMDAs, please refer to:

www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/training-agreements/lmda.html.

Apprentices

Apprentices are paid by their employer during periods of practical training. During the classroom portion of their training, apprentices are eligible for regular benefits under Part I of the EI Act. The apprentice requires a referral under the authority of Section 25 of the EI Act to access these benefits. Depending on the regional and local priorities of the province or territory, the apprentice may receive EI Part II support to cover classroom-related expenses.

Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS)

HRSDC negotiates agreements with Aboriginal organizations to design and deliver employment programs and services for Aboriginal people at the community level. Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS) is the successor to the Aboriginal Human Resources Development Strategy (AHRDS), which expired on March 31, 2010.

The sunsetting of AHRDS and the modernization of HRDSC's Aboriginal labour market programming—through ASETS—coincides with HRSDC’s process of modernizing the administration of grants and contributions. The ASETS advances labour market outcomes for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit via demand-driven skills development, strategic partnerships with provinces, territories and the private sector, and via increased accountability. It also supports the development of a skilled Aboriginal workforce, which is one of the Aboriginal Economic Development Framework’s objectives.

Job Bank

Job Bank is an Internet service that helps connect employers and workers. It is the largest web-based network of job advertisements across Canada and is available to Canadian employers and job seekers free of charge. See http://jb-ge.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca.

Annex 3.3 EBSMs Program Descriptions

Employment Benefits

Targeted Wage Subsidies assist insured participants to obtain on-the-job work experience by providing employers with financial assistance toward the wages of participants. This benefit encourages employers to hire unemployed individuals whom they would not normally hire in the absence of a subsidy.

Self-Employment provides financial assistance and business planning advice to EI-eligible participants to help them start their own business. This financial assistance is intended to cover personal living expenses and other expenses during the initial stages of the business.

Job Creation Partnerships projects provide insured participants with opportunities to gain work experience that will lead to ongoing employment. Activities of the project help develop the community and the local economy.

Skills Development helps insured participants to obtain employment skills by giving them direct financial assistance that enables them to select, arrange for and pay for their own training.

Targeted Earnings Supplements encourage unemployed persons to accept employment by offering them financial incentives. Quebec offers a similar measure—Return to Work Supplement—to help with expenses related to returning to work (for example, new tools, office materials or clothing).

Support Measures

Employment Assistance Services provide funding to organizations to enable them to provide employment assistance to unemployed persons. The services provided may include individual counselling, action planning, job search skills, job-finding clubs, job placement services, the provision of labour market information, case management and follow-up.

Labour Market Partnerships provide funding to help employers, employee and employer associations, and communities to improve their capacity to deal with human resource requirements and to implement labour force adjustments. These partnerships involve developing plans and strategies, and implementing adjustment measures.

Research and Innovation supports activities that identify better ways of helping people to prepare for or keep employment and to be productive participants in the labour force. Funds are provided to eligible recipients to enable them to carry out demonstration projects and research for this purpose.

Annex 3.4 EBSM Overview¹

Sources: Client and Participant datasets.

¹ Ontario has made major changes to its reporting methodology and now counts one individual counselling intervention per client. As a result, year-over-year comparisons of client and intervention data may be misleading.

² Clients with an unknown gender were added to the male category.

³ SD-Apprentices and Group Services are excluded from the distribution because client date of birth is not collected.

⁴ Reported counts are generally lower than actual numbers because data are collected through self-identification.

Annex 3.5 EBSM Clients-Clients Served, by Client Type¹

Source: Client dataset.

¹ This table includes clients served between April 1, 2011, and March 31, 2012, with one count per client served.

² Each jurisdiction's target refers to the number of EI active clients served, except in Quebec, where it includes both active and former clients served.

Annex 3.6¹ New EBSM Interventions

Source: Participant dataset.

¹ Interventions in this table refer to all new starts between April 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012.

² Ontario has made major changes to its reporting methodology and now counts one individual counselling intervention per client. As a result, year-over-year comparisons of client and intervention data may be misleading.

Annex 3.7 EBSM Designated Members - Women

Source: Participant dataset.

¹ All percentages are based on new start interventions only (the number of interventions started in 2011/12).

Annex 3.8 EBSM Designated Members - Persons with Disabilities

Source: Participant dataset.

¹ All percentages are based on new start interventions only (the number of interventions started in 2011/12). These reported counts are generally lower than actual numbers because data are collected through self-identification.

Annex 3.9 EBSM Designated Members - Aboriginal People

Source: Participant dataset.

¹ All percentages are based on new start interventions only (the number of interventions started in 2011/12). These reported counts are generally lower than actual numbers because data are collected through self-identification.

Annex 3.10 - EBSM Designated Members¹ - Visible Minorities²

Source: Participant dataset.

¹ Quebec, New Brunswick, and NHQ did not report participation levels for members of the visible minority groups. Therefore, these jurisdictions were excluded from the calculation of the national average.

² All percentages are based on new start interventions only (the number of interventions started in 2011/12). These reported counts are generally lower than actual numbers because data are collected through self-identification.

Annex 3.11 EBSM and Pan-Canadian Activities - EI Part I—Final Expenditures

Source: Corporate Management System.

¹ In Quebec, this amount refers only to pan-Canadian activities.

Annex 3.12 EBSM EI Final Expenditure⁶

Source: Corporate Management System and provincial/territorial audited statements.

¹ Overcontributions will be recovered during 2012/13.

² This adjustment reflects overpayments established, refunds of previous years' expenditures and other accounting adjustments.

³ Administrative costs include $178 million (salary and non-salary) to administer LMDAs, $10 million for rent and $16 million for LMDA Supplementary Agreements.

⁴ Expenditures for Ontario TWS (Job Placement with Incentives) were estimated by Ontario. In Ontario's financial statements, actual expenditures for Ontario's TWS-similar interventions were included in total EAS expenditures, because the province has integrated these services in its new employment service model in order to maximize the flexibility of program delivery by third-party service providers.

⁵ N.W.T Audited financial statement is not available. Information is from the Northwest Territories LMDA Statement of Operations as of March 31, 2012.

⁶ Totals may not add due to rounding.

Annex 3.13 EI Part II Pan-Canadian—Final Expenditures

Source: Corporate Management System.

¹ The expenditures reported under Supporting Agreements with Provinces and Territories are considered administrative costs and are rolled-up under the administrative costs related to LMDAs in Annex 3.12.

Annex 3.14 Returns to Employment and Unpaid Benefits Indicators

Source: Results dataset.

¹ ASETS activity resulted in 5,604 returns to employment and $11.7 million in unpaid benefits.

² Targets are for EBSM regular clients only.

³ The "Other" category includes all other EBSMs. SD-Apprentices and Group Services are reported separately because a different methodology is used to calculate returns to employment for these two measures.

⁴ Some unpaid benefit figures have been rounded.

Annex 3.15 Returns to Employment, by EBSMs Intervention¹

Sources: Results dataset and Common System for Grants and Contributions (CSGC)

¹ Results associated solely with the ASETS are not available.

² Results for SD-Apprentices do not match those in Annex 3.14. Results presented in this Annex are associated with the last intervention in which a client participated. Employment Benefits participation supersedes participation in Employment Services.