Employment and Labour

Promotes Aboriginal training and employment in the province.

Canada-Saskatchewan Career and Employment Service helps Saskatchewan people to plan a career, upgrade their education or skills, and find a job. It also assists employers to find the workers they need.

The Employability Assistance for People With Disabilities (EAPD) Program provides funding to assist adults with disabilities to prepare for, secure and maintain employment. Various supports are offered, including training-on-the-job, vocational and work assessments, psycho-educational assessments, job coaching, support for employers and disability-related costs in a wide variety of post-secondary education and training programs.

The tax credit rebates 45 per cent of the total wages of all Saskatchewan labour for Saskatchewan productions and co-productions.

JobStart/Future Skills links training to employment. The program provides a range of skills training solutions for Saskatchewan people. The program is offered in partnership with Saskatchewan businesses, industry associations, individuals, public training institutions and other training deliverers

The Labour Relations and Mediation Division provides information, training, mediation and bargaining assistance to labour and management in unionized workplaces.

Promotes and enforces provincial employment standards established under\n^ The Labour Standards Act\n.

Information and services to keep Saskatchewan people safe at work by preventing and reducing on-the-job accidents and illnesses.

The Ready for Work initiatives are directed towards helping Saskatchewan young people make a positive transition from school to work.

The Representative Workforce Strategy focuses on working with employers to identify employment needs and remove existing barriers to Aboriginal employment in the workplace.

SaskJobs provides job seekers and employers with assistance to find and post employment opportunities in Saskatchewan.

The Final Report of the Minister's Advisory Committee on Status of the Artist was released in July 2006.

TEA provides some income to people who are looking for work with the help of the Jobs First program, waiting for their first paycheque, or waiting for income from some other source.

Adjudicates disputes under the Trade Union Act and other Saskatchewan labour legislation.