Consultation and Engagement: Various Subjects

Panel on Employment Challenges of New Canadians

Start date: October 9, 2014

End date: December 1, 2014

Department: Employment and Social Development Canada

Participants: Recent immigrants, the public, businesses, organizations involved in the assessment of foreign credentials, organizations supporting immigrants, training/educational institutions

Contact: Panel on Employment Challenges of New Canadians

The Panel on Employment Challenges of New Canadians held consultations to identify:

1. ways to better integrate newcomers into the workforce; and
2. barriers faced by employers when hiring and retaining newcomers.

It also explored successes, innovative approaches and promising practices.

Consultations took place in person in Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal and Halifax and online.

Consultation report: Survival to Success: Transforming Immigrant Outcomes

Consultation report: Summary of the panel’s online consultation

News release: Government of Canada takes action to help newcomers get jobs in their field faster.

Roundtables on the Labour Market Development Agreements

• Start date: April 29, 2014
• End date: October 14, 2014
• Department: Employment and Social Development Canada
• Open to: Invited organizations
• Contact: Consultation and Engagement

A series of roundtables will be held, in cooperation with provincial and territorial governments, to discuss Labour Market Development Agreements. Read the Retooling Labour Market Development Agreements Report.

Update of the National Occupational Classification (NOC)

• Start date: July 30, 2013
• End date: June 30, 2014
• Department: Statistics Canada and Employment and Social Development Canada
• Open to: Data producers, data users, clients, stakeholders and members of the public
• Contact: Statistics Canada

The 2011 National Occupational Classification (NOC) is currently being updated. The updated NOC will be available in 2016. Statistics Canada is soliciting input from data producers and data users in order to ensure their needs continue to be met by the NOC, and from individuals, user groups, industry representatives and occupational experts to ensure that the descriptive information contained in the NOC remains current. All submissions will be managed jointly by ESDC and Statistics Canada.

Roundtables on the economy, skills gap and skills training

• Start date: February 19, 2014
• End date: February 22, 2014
• Department: Employment and Social Development Canada
• Who attended: Invited organizations
• Contact: Consultation and Engagement

The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism, will host roundtables with stakeholders to discuss Canada’s economy, particularly the skills gap and skills training, including the Canada Job Grant and recent changes to Employment Insurance. Roundtables will take place in Whitehorse ( February 19 ), Yellowknife ( February 20 ) and Iqaluit ( February 22 ).

Stakeholder Roundtable

• Start date: January 28, 2014
• End date: January 28, 2014
• Department: Employment and Skills Development Canada
• Who attended: Invited organizations
• Contact: Consultation and Engagement

Scott Armstrong, Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development, will host a roundtable with business representatives and community leaders in St. John's on January 28, 2014 .