Politique ou Programme

• A Pilot program aimed at testing the feasibility / applicability of labour mobility between areas of higher unemployment and labour shortages. This pilot program would grant favoured tax status (as outlined in a Bill C-227 a Bill defeated in a previous Parliament) to pilot participants travelling to obtain full time employment in a trade deemed to be experiencing labour shortages.
• Apprenticeship & Training Employment and Skills Development and the Red Seal Secretariat to continue to promote and use the Red Seal Program Assist with National Occupational Competencies analysis for various trades and occupations as at the request of Employment and Skills Development
• Economic Action Plan Knowledge Infrastructure Program - working to ensure our training centres are eligible / qualify for Knowledge Infrastructure program
• Foreign Worker Program, Language requirements for Temporary Foreign Worker program applicants. Also working with departments on innapropriate uses of Temporary foreign workers ...and working to ensure these workers are paid the same as Candian workers (wages, benefits )
• Sector Council Program, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada Continuation of SectorCouncil activities and working with them to deliver LMI for our industry Encourgae Human Resources and Skills Development Canada to increase and maintain funding for this initiative We are not seeking funding but encouraging government to expand the sector council program

Proposition législative, Projet de loi ou résolution

• Bill C-4 An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code, the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act, the Public Service Labour Relations Act and the Income Tax Ac
• Continuation of seperate employment insurance account - Employment Insurance Act Our specific interest is as follows - Funds collected from employment insurance contributinos do not flow into the consolidated revenue fund of the Government of Canada to be used for deficit repayment or other ad hoc spending
• EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT working with Human Resources skills development on insurable hours, benefit delivery and the qualification requirements for employment insurance
• FAIR WAGE AND HOURS OF LABOUR ACT Working with the Labour program at Human resources and skills development to ensure Fair Wage act is accurate timely ect. Specifically, information provision and proposals for a mechanism to improve information sharing for Fair Wage purposes

Proposition législative, Projet de loi ou résolution, Règlement

• IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE PROTECTION ACT Particularily the Temporary Foreign Worker process and the relevant regulations Class determinants for immigration purpses "Family, Economic ...and working to ensure a policy favourable to construction exists

Règlement

• Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations Specifically the IRPR board of referees and composition / policy direction of this board