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26-716: The program, administered jointly by Employment and Social Development Canada with Citizenship and Immigration Canada , is available to those who are at least 18 years of age, from one of the participating countries, qualify under the immigration laws and the sending country and agree to the employment contract . Those workers are eligible for the Canada Pension Plan and certain Employment Insurance benefits (excluding "special benefits" such as maternal, parental and compassionate care benefits). Workers are also subject to income tax laws. The issue of

52-458: A Canada Student Loans Program (CSLP)/HRSDC office in Gatineau, Quebec. Borrowers who registered a loan between 2000 and 2006 were potentially affected. The information on the hard drive contained full names, social insurance numbers , contact information, and loan balances. The hard drive also contained information on 250 HRSDC employees. Concerns of privacy breaches and identity theft led to

78-494: A lack of workers was first recognized in the mid-1960s when there were not enough workers to fill the needs of farms that needed their crop picked as well as planted at the beginning of the season. The government saw a need to form a program to help fill the gap of labor and farms in need of workers. By 1966 the Seasonal Agriculture Workers Program was formed and utilized by Ontario . It began as

104-676: A partnership between Canada and the Caribbean country of Jamaica and has since grown to many other Caribbean countries and Mexico. As of 2005 there were 18,000 migrant workers coming into the country annually, mainly working in Ontario. Researchers studying migrant women who enter into British Columbia, Canada through SAWP found that they face unique barriers that inhibit their bodily autonomy and freedom to make choices surrounding their sexual health through "state-level policies and practices, employer coercion and control, and circumstances related to

130-662: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Employment and Social Development Canada Employment and Social Development Canada ( ESDC ; French : Emploi et Développement social Canada ; EDSC ) is a department of the Government of Canada responsible for social programs and the labour market at the federal level. The department delivers a number of federal government programs and services including Employment Insurance (EI), Service Canada centres, Canada Student Loan Program (CSLP), Canada Pension Plan (CPP), issuing social insurance numbers (SIN) and

156-485: Is now tasked with handling the file on persons with disabilities. Sub-agencies of ESDC include: ESDC delivers $ 87 billion in programs and services and has approximately 24,000 employees. Approximately 19,000 of those employees work under the Service Canada banner. On January 11, 2013, Minister Diane Finley announced that a hard drive containing information of 583,000 student loan borrowers had been lost from

182-590: The unemployment insurance program to the issuance of social insurance numbers and job training and counselling. Although HRDC was operationally functional since 1993, the Department of Human Resources Development Act was not adopted until 29 May 1996 and officially entered into force on 12 July 1996 when it received Royal Assent and was published in the Canada Gazette . The Department of Employment and Immigration , in operation from 1977 to 1996,

208-575: The department was renamed. On November 4, 2015, the department underwent machinery of government changes which saw the employment responsibilities transfer to the Labour Minister resulting in the newly re-titled Minister of Employment, Workforce and Labour . The Social Development aspects were then shaped into the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development . The Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion

234-656: The federal Labour Program among other things. Employment and Social Development Canada is part of the membership of the Inter-American Conference on Social Security , a technical and specialized international organization, which has the objective of promoting the development of social protection and security in America. The Department of Human Resources and Skills Development was created in December 2003, when Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC)

260-535: The filing of three class-action suits against the federal government on behalf of the affected students. On January 18, 2013, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada stated that a formal investigation had been launched. The stated outcome of this investigation was to provide information to organizations and individuals to improve privacy protection. The RCMP was notified but is waiting for

286-401: The former Department of Employment and Immigration formed its nucleus. HRDC's creation was probably the most enduring decision taken by Campbell's short-lived administration. The new department, however was poorly focused and had a wide range of institutional cultures from the merged bureaucracies; it also had one of the larger departmental budgets and a variety of responsibilities ranging from

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312-489: The government and formation of the department for Citizenship and Immigration Canada . In the late 1990s, HRDC gained public headlines across Canada following numerous poorly thought procurements, notably dozens of server computers using the Unix operating system, this despite the fact that the purchase far exceeded the department's computing requirements. Other problems relating to several incompatible email systems made HRDC

338-602: The media anonymously of injustices, finding and accessing forms of birth control or reproductive health services even when discouraged from doing so, forging relationships, and building a community as well as seeking the aid of advocacy groups. In 2022, the program has received increased media scrutiny following a string of worker deaths and an open letter from Jamaican migrant workers to the Jamaican Ministry of Labour likening conditions in Ontario to 'systematic slavery.' This Canadian government –related article

364-691: The organization must respect individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter) as well as other rights" like the " reproductive rights and the right to be free from discrimination". After facing nine ongoing Federal Court challenges and the complaints of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in union with the Canadian Council of Christian Charities,

390-679: The outcome of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's investigation to do their own investigation. This incident has become known as "1 in 60", representing the ratio of affected individuals to the Canadian population as a whole. In 2018, the government of Justin Trudeau introduced a new mandatory criteria for eligible employers and projects of the Canada Summer Jobs program, for which "the core mandate of

416-526: The program's legal restrictions, which results in a limited access to social programs or services, labour rights and health care services. As a result, migrant women in SAWP take part in "everyday" forms of resistance to injustices and oppression. Rather than large scale forms of protest or objection, tactics to resist these forms of oppression are more subtle. Forms of resistance for these women often involve private disobedience of restrictive regulations, informing

442-499: The reorganization of the government and formation of the department for Citizenship and Immigration Canada . HRDC was dissolved in a December 2003 government reorganization which saw two departments, the Department of Social Development and the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development created in its place. The two departments were re-amalgamated on February 6, 2006, though now named Employment and Social Development Canada . The Minister of Human Resources Development

468-425: The requirement was rewritten and became a mandatory point for eligible projects and job activities, which must not "actively work to undermine or restrict a woman's access to sexual and reproductive health services". Human Resources Development Canada Human Resources Development Canada ( French : Développement des ressources humaines Canada , HRDC ) was a department of the Government of Canada with

494-456: The responsibility over a wide portfolio of social services. HRDC was based at a government office facility at Place du Portage IV in Gatineau (formerly downtown Hull, Quebec ). HRDC was created in 1993 by Prime Minister Kim Campbell 's government in an attempt to decrease the size of the federal cabinet by grouping several departments with similar responsibilities. In the case of HRDC,

520-558: The structure of the SAWP". These women are impacted by many factors that contribute to their marginalization, including precarious legal status, lack of access to health care services, poverty, knowledge and language barriers, and job insecurity. Utilizing a reproductive justice framework to analyze this issue, researchers shift the focus from "abortion rights and sexual freedom" to governmental processes that inhibit access for women to be able to make choices that are "safe, affordable, and accessible". Women in SAWP are highly vulnerable due to

546-470: Was first held by Bud Cullen , who continued from his preceding role as the Minister of Manpower and Immigration . On 12 July 1996, the office of the Minister of Employment and Immigration was abolished and replaced with the office of Minister of Human Resources Development. The portfolio for immigration was transferred to the office of Minister of Citizenship and Immigration following the reorganization of

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572-631: Was given formal legal effect when the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act and the Department of Social Development Act were enacted in July 2005. Upon taking office in February 2006, the Conservative government of Stephen Harper announced it would recombine the two departments, and through a series of orders in council , Social Development Canada was folded into HRSDC. From 2006 to 2008, Social Development's preceding role

598-446: Was reflected by styling the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development as the "Minister of Human Resources and Social Development", and by changing the department's applied title to "Human Resources and Social Development Canada". This practice ended in late 2008 when the title was changed to "Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development." The post was later referred to as "Minister of Employment and Social Development" when

624-415: Was split into two separate departments: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) and Social Development Canada (SDC). Though they continued to share many common services and operations, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada was to focus on workforce-related aspects of the former HRDC portfolio, while SDC was to focus on social support programs for children, families and seniors. The split

650-613: Was the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet responsible for overseeing HRDC. Prior to 1996, the post was known as Minister of Employment and Immigration. In 2003, the portfolio was divided to create the posts of Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and Minister of Social Development . The Minister of Employment and Immigration was an office in the Cabinet of Canada , in operation from 1977 to 1996, and

676-418: Was the department that preceded HRDC and succeeded the Department of Manpower and Immigration . The department was abolished on 12 July 1996. The role previously held by the Minister of Employment and Immigration in regard to labour was taken on by the Minister of Human Resources Development, while the portfolio for immigration was transferred to the office of Minister of Citizenship and Immigration following

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