| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
The skilled trades represent high-quality and well-paid middle class jobs that are critical to Canada’s economic growth. As Canada’s economy continues to grow and create good, well-paying jobs, the Government of Canada wants to ensure that all Canadians share in and benefit from this success.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
The Government is investing $11 million in the Flexibility and Innovation in Apprenticeship Technical Training pilot project. This pilot funds third-party organizations to test innovative and flexible approaches to improve access to apprenticeship training and increase completion rates.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
The death or disappearance of a child is devastating and can leave parents unable to work. To ensure victims’ families continue to get the help they need, the Government of Canada is replacing the Parents of Murdered or Missing Children grant with the Canadian Benefit for Parents of Young Victims of Crime.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | media advisories
The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, will speak about Government of Canada measures to provide support to parents dealing with the death or disappearance of a child.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Canada’s long-term prosperity depends on its greatest asset: its talented, hard-working people. When Canadians can be confident that they’ll have the tools they need to embrace the challenges and opportunities that innovation and new technology bring, we can create the kind of sustained long-term economic growth that works for everyone. That is why the Government of Canada is taking concrete steps to build a highly skilled and resilient workforce for the long term.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
New and emerging technologies have an effect on every aspect of Canadians’ lives, including the workplace. Automation, robotics and artificial intelligence are a few examples of technologies that are part of the changing nature of work. The Future Skills initiative aims to help Canadians improve their skills to better prepare for, get and keep jobs, and to adapt and succeed at work.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
In line with Canada’s progressive trade agenda and in the context of Canada’s labour agreements, the Government of Canada is committed to improving working conditions in Canada and in partner countries alike, and promoting respect for internationally recognized labour rights and principles.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
One of the most important roles of the Government of Canada is to support vulnerable Canadians, including people who experience homelessness or are at risk of becoming homeless. All Canadians need and deserve housing that is safe, adequate and affordable.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
On June 22, 2017, Minister Duclos announced the membership of the Advisory Committee on Homelessness. Chaired by Parliamentary Secretary Adam Vaughan (Housing and Urban Affairs), it included 13 members from outside of government and across the country who represented diverse regions and cultures, Indigenous people, Canada’s two official languages and people who have experienced homelessness. The focus of the Committee’s work was to provide expertise and independent advice to the Minister on potential ways to improve the Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS), post-2019.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Today, the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Member of Parliament for Moncton–Riverview–Dieppe and Minister of Health, on behalf of the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, and in partnership with the Honourable Cathy Rogers, Member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Moncton South and Minister of Finance, on behalf of the Honourable Gilles LePage, New Brunswick’s Minister of Labour, Employment and Population Growth, announced a new project that will give young newcomers in New Brunswick job skills training and hands-on work experience.