The program provides funding to encourage and support employers, employee/employer associations and communities in developing and implementing strategies for responding to labour force adjustments and meeting human resource requirements.
This program aims to address labour market issues through the facilitation of effective partnerships. The Labour Market Partnerships program may support activities related to human resource planning and labour force adjustment.
Activities can include related research, development of human resource strategies, promotion of beneficial human resource and adjustment practices (best practices), coordination of community-based approaches to addressing labour market issues, short-term adjustment services for workers facing layoff and the creation of economic (employment) development plans and community marketing plans.
Key characteristics of the program include:
1. Activities that focus on a labour market issue and are assessed as likely to have a positive impact on the labour market;
2. Activities that involve partnership;
3. Activities that involve the development or implementation of strategies for dealing with labour force adjustments and/or for meeting human resource requirements;
4. Funding that is finite in nature. Although a series of agreements may be signed with the same sponsor each agreement shall state specific project outcomes and timeframes and not be reliant on a future agreement for success; and
5. Activities that assist people who are in the labour market or about to enter into the labour market.