Human Resources committee  I think mobility has to be voluntary and it can't be at the expense of.... It doesn't make sense if you have a two-partner family where one partner will have to travel across the country or will have to leave their neighbourhood to work. Something that would offer the opportun

Human Resources committee  I agree with you. I think there needs to be some flexibility built into the program. If you've been working for an employer for a significant length of time, your skills may not be current outside of that workplace, which means that you need that kind of upgrading. I think that's

Human Resources committee  There are a number of difficult cases to reintegrating. We all know that older workers who have been long-time employees are difficult to reintegrate into the workforce. There are also workers who have been out of the workforce and have done child-rearing who are coming back into

Human Resources committee  Yes, I would say that training dollars need to be available to everybody, but I do think that the solution is recognizing the fact that we need to improve EI eligibility as well. My focus was on improving EI eligibility because, based on our numbers, the number of unemployed wor

Human Resources committee  Certainly it's a pleasure to comment on that. I'm going to just relate an experience I had recently based on a closure. I had a woman come to me who had just returned to work from a maternity leave. She'd been off work, but it was a part-time job. Based on the fact that she'd bee

Human Resources committee  When we have people who are unemployed who have been working for a long time in the fields, they're not necessarily up to date when it comes to things like computers. If they've come into a job right out of high school, certainly they're going to be lacking in skills and it's goi

Human Resources committee  Yes, I would definitely recommend a different approach. When they rolled out the Canada job grant, it was done without consultation with any of the stakeholders. I think that was part of the problem with getting some acceptance. I know there were improvements made when they did s

Human Resources committee  Good morning. Unifor appreciates the invitation to appear before the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities, in view of its labour market development agreement study. We want to point out the important r