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Building the Workforce in Nova Scotia
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Skills and Learning Tactical Plan
Workforce Strategy Priority actions
1. Support Learning and Skills Development in the Workplace
2. Help Nova Scotians Connect to Good Jobs
3. Grow the Workforce in Numbers and Skills
Targeted Wage Subsidy (retired) ◦ Lacked flexibility◦ Focused only on clients◦ Restricted to mainly wages
Employers are looking for skilled trained workers
Workforce Strategy /under represented population
Background
Highlights START will match unemployed Nova Scotians with employers
Open to all unemployed Nova Scotians (LMA/LMDA)
START provides increasing levels of incentive to employers based on a
number of variables.
START acknowledges the cost to employers of hiring a new employee,
especially someone who lacks work experience
Retention bonus
Other policy changes
Apprentices
START will contribute to growing Nova Scotia businesses with labour needs
START will contribute to employers in the trades
START focuses on providing opportunities to all Nova Scotians, with an
increased focus on those people traditionally underrepresented in the
labour market, apprentices, and employers in rural areas.
Pilot programs let us try new things
We will engage with Careers Nova Scotia Centers
Opportunities
Employment Nova Scotia
Apprenticeship Training
Workplace Initiatives
EAS Service Providers – (Careers NS
Centres )
Roles – Skills and Learning and Beyond
• Policy development• Administration of
contracts with employers
• Issuing funds
• Employer /apprentice matches
• Feedback /expertise/ Intelligence on employer community
• Clients • Work with
employers
• Marketing to employers
Employer Clients / Worker clients
Implementation Application Process – NO CHANGE
Client Applications – Worksheet not required
Case Manager’s Recommendation
1) NFP hiring an African Nova Scotian worker in a rural area who has been absent from the labour market
2) Ocean technology project in Yarmouth hiring a recent graduate
3) Job ready client in Halifax working with local art studio
Assessments (A Few Examples)
DRAFT - FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY
START Start - Get the right experience for real jobs.
Start - The right experience for real jobs. Here at home.
Start - Experience for workers.
Start - Incentives for business.
Start - Jobs here at home.