Employer Panel for Caregivers Consultation
Mandated by the Minister of State (Seniors), the Employer Panel for Caregivers is consulting employers, in person and online, to identify promising and successful workplace practices that help support employees who provide ongoing care to a family member or friend. A public report will be available late 2014 or early 2015.The submissions or views provided as part of this consultation will be used to develop a report for the Minister of State (Seniors) based on the Panel's initial findings from their consultations with employers across Canada on promising and successful workplace practices that support employed caregivers.
Please submit completed questionnaire by .
Informal Caregiving
For the purposes of this consultation, informal caregiving refers those aged 15+ that provide unpaid care to a family member or friend with a long-term health condition, physical or mental disability or problems related to aging. It does not include child care, parenting or care for minor short-term illnesses such as colds or flus. For example, informal caregiving could include the caring for an aging parent who has Alzheimer's, a spouse with a chronic disease such as cancer, or a child with developmental delays.
In , nearly 6.1 million employed Canadians provided care to a family member or friend.
Instructions
In the text of your response, please do not include any personal information about yourself or anyone else, such as a name, address, email or any other information by which you or anyone else can be identified by your comments or views. You may provide information related to your business such as the company name, size, industry, region and/or city. This information may be used for internal research purposes and will remain under restricted access at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC). Any input included in the report will be non-attributable. The report may include a list of participant companies and organizations, and/or may identify a promising or successful workplace practice by company size, industry, region and/or city.
If you wish to obtain information related to this consultation, you may submit a request to ESDC pursuant to the Access to Information Act. If you have provided your contact information and wish to obtain your personal information, you may submit a request to ESDC pursuant to the Privacy Act. Instructions for making both requests are provided in the publication InfoSource. When making a request, please refer to the Employer Panel for Caregivers consultation or the Canadian Employers for Caregivers Plan.
Who will read these views?
All submissions will be collected by officials from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).
What can't my submission contain?
Your submission cannot use content or language that is inappropriate (for example, vulgar, obscene or hateful), names or addresses of other individuals, copyrighted material owned by other individuals or material promoting a commercial product.
Privacy Notification Statement
The information you provide in this consultation is collected under the authority of the Department of Employment and Social Development Act for the purpose of gathering information on existing workplace practices to develop a report for the Minister of State (Senior) on best practices on the Canadian Employers for Caregivers Plan program. Your participation is voluntary and your acceptance or refusal to participate will not affect your relationship with ESDC or Panel members. The report will summarize consultation submissions without attribution and may include a list of participant company names and organizations. The report will be shared with departmental officials at ESDC, the Minister of State (Seniors), Panel members and the public.
Instructions for obtaining this information are outlined in the government publication entitled Info Source .Info Source may also be accessed on-line at any Service Canada Centre.
Corporate Profile
The following information will be used for internal research purposes. The report will include aggregate information so that answers cannot be attributed to individual companies.