STARTInformation for Service Providers

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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

Skills and Learning

Apprenticeship

Workplace Initiatives

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Skills and Learning Tactical Plan

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

Implementation Apprentices (902) 424-3411

Working with employers

Feedback

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.