91.13PU Labour Force Training
NCWC reaffirms its concerns that Canada is neither developing the true potential of its female labour force nor producing the skills needed to be internationally competitive in the coming decade and thus maintain the level of exports requisite to a high standard of living.
[RESOLVED,] NCWC urges the Government of Canada to:
- Broaden areas or categories of works for apprenticeship training or other integrated work and study periods between educational institutions and industry.
- Publicize existing and proposed job training programs which encourage participation of women in traditionally male occupations and an early selection of apprenticeship programs by school leavers.
- Promote the development of training councils with representation by management, labour, educational institutes, government and consumers to develop skill upgrading and training programs required by industry, using levy grants or similar systems as required.
- Produce and maintain flexible programs which will meet the needs of people adversely affected by technology changes or new trade patterns, including retraining, relocation assistance, job placements, education upgrading, language training and providing seed money to start up a business of their own.
- Provide specialized programs for persons who become unemployed after a period of continuous long-term employment.
- Open training courses to women who are providing in-home care for their children, providing child care facilities and other adaptations to meet their special needs, and provide counselling and employment aids for women who want to return to the labour force after periods of full-time child-rearing.
- Provide unemployed persons who are disadvantaged physically, mentally, emotionally or culturally, with on-the-job training in job which they might be able to fill.