Talent in Transition

In addition, the Province expanded the capacity of the Specialist High Skills Major Program to include 17,000 more grade 11 and 12 students.18 The recent provincial commitments to work-integrated learning follow the June 2016 release of the final report of the Premier’s Highly Skilled Workforce Panel, Building the Workforce of Tomorrow: A Shared Responsibility. [...] In Building the Workforce of Tomorrow: A Shared Responsibility, the Premier’s Highly Skilled Workforce Panel recognized the importance of engaging employers and their associations directly in addressing the barriers and challenges faced with hiring people with disabilities.38 The Panel also recommended that the Ontario Public Service (OPS) should increase the number of experiential learning opport [...] The Job Grant provides up $10,000 to employers to cover the cost of training prospective and/or current employees.58 In the 2016 Budget, the Government of Canada committed to providing an additional $50 million in 2016-17 for the Canada Job Funds Agreements as well as an additional $125 million for the Labour Market Developments Agreements with the objective of ensuring that unemployed and underem [...] The Province determines the eligibility of the request based on an evaluation of a series of criteria including the steps undertaken by the employer to hire more journeypersons as well as the geographic limitations experienced by the employer to locate journeypersons.64 The implementation of a similar process in Ontario could alleviate some of the challenges that employers, particularly in smaller [...] The implementation of this recommendation would require government to invest $4 million in one-time funding to support the development of the IT infrastructure in the existing college application framework.72 In the proposed model, OCAS would provide enhanced support to the apprentice from the application stage, throughout their training and when registering for their Certificate of Qualification