ACTIVE BENEFICIARY (EIF - Part 1 )

A person for whom a period of insurance benefits is established in conformity with employment insurance laws (Employment Insurance Act).

Active EI claimant

An individual for whom an Employment Insurance benefit period is established under the Employment Insurance Act.

AFNQL

Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador

AHRD Program

The Aboriginal Human Resources Development Program.

AHRDS Program interventions

Funded interventions dealing with the employment dimension of Skill Enhancement.

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AHRDS Service interventions

Unfunded interventions dealing with one or more of the following three employability dimensions:

1. Career Decision-making - Labour market search; career exploration; life-skills training; and counseling (administrative portion underpinning the above interventions);
2. Job Search - Job finding club; résumé writing assistance; labour exchange; interview techniques; and counseling (administrative portion underpinning the above interventions); and
3. Employment Maintenance.

Capacity building

A process by which the AFNQL will:

1. increase the ability of its human resources to set objectives and priorities, perform functions, solve problems, understand and deal with social and economic needs in a sustainable manner, and achieve objectives; and/or
2. develop or acquire the service delivery tools that will improve workflow and client service.

Capital asset

Any single item or composite asset with a purchase value of more than $1000.00 not physically incorporated into another product or not fully consumed by the end of the project. This definition comes from the Financial and Administrative Services (FAS) Grants and Contributions (G&C) Policy. For purposes of this agreement, provisions for the pre-approval, preservation and disposition of capital assets apply only to capital assets valued at $5000.00 or more.

CLIENT ELIGIBLE FOR EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (EIF- Part 2)

An EI client is someone who, when requesting assistance as part of a measure described in Division I of Part I (labour market measures) of the Employment Insurance Act, is:

• An active EI recipient; or
• A former EI recipient whose period of benefits under the Employment Insurance Act terminated in the preceding 36 months; or
• A former EI recipient for whom a benefit period has been established in the preceding 60 months and who:

1. Received special benefits under the Employment Insurance Act during the benefit period;
2. Subsequently ceased to be actively employed in order to take care of one or more new born children or one or more adopted children; and
3. Is now seeking to reintegrate the labour market.

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Collaborative partnership

A collaborative relationship where the purpose is to share funding between/among an Aboriginal AFNQL and other entities with the stated goal to assist in furthering Aboriginal labour market participation. Types of partnership entities include: other parts of HRSDC, other federal departments, provincial/ territorial departments, municipalities, learning institutions, indigenous learning institutions, private sector, and other partnerships.

Complementary programming

Programs and services provided to Aboriginal clients that enhance but do not duplicate the programs and services provided under the AHRDS funding.

Contractor

A third party with whom the AFNQL has a contract for the provision of goods and/or services.

Coordinated partnership

A coordinated relationship where the purpose is to share expertise and/or resources between/among an Aboriginal AFNQL and other entities with the stated goal to assist in furthering Aboriginal labour market participation. Types of partnership entities include: other parts of HRSDC, other federal departments, provincial/ territorial departments, municipalities, learning institutions, indigenous learning institutions, private sector, and other partnerships.

COUNSELLING SERVICES

A client can obtain advice when looking for a job, returning to school or even starting a business. The employment counsellor’s job is to examine the client’s past employment and training history, identify any obstacles and prepare a plan of action with the client to help him or her solve the problems and become more autonomous on the labour market.

DEPENDANT CHILD

The child of a client, or of whom the client is the legal or traditional guardian, who is under age 18, and not receiving financial aid (unemployment insurance, social security revenue, government or Band Council funding, etc.) or salary.

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DEPENDANT SPOUSE

Spouse without any source of income, excluding government family allowances.

EI Act

Employment Insurance Act, Statutes of Canada 1996, Chapter 23.

EI client

An unemployed person who, at the time of requesting assistance under a program pursuant to this Agreement, is:

• an active EI claimant; or
• a former EI claimant whose benefit period under the EI Act has ended within the previous 36 months; or
• a former EI claimant for whom a benefit period has been established in the previous 60 months and who:
  
  (i) was paid special benefits under the EI Act during the benefit period;
  (ii) subsequently withdrew from active participation in the labour force to care for one or more of their new-born children or one or more children placed with them for the purpose of adoption; and
  (iii) is seeking to re-enter the labour force.

EI-related program administration costs

The “program administration costs” as defined in this Schedule and incurred by the AFNQL in relation to:

• the labour market programs described in Schedule B, Part I of the Agreement that are reasonably attributable to providing services to EI clients, and
• the labour market programs described in Schedule B, Part I of the Agreement.

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EI-related program assistance costs

The following program assistance costs:

1. the costs of financial assistance provided directly to EI clients by the AFNQL under the labour market programs described in Schedule B, Part I of the Agreement,
2. the costs of financial assistance or other payments provided by the AFNQL under the labour market programs described in Schedule B, Part I, Section 1 of the Agreement to persons or AFNQLs as reimbursement for costs incurred by them, or as payment for services rendered by them, in relation to the provision of assistance to EI clients, and
3. the costs of financial assistance provided under the labour market programs described in Schedule B, Part I of the Agreement to persons or AFNQLs as reimbursement for costs incurred by them, or as payment for services rendered by them, in relation to activities that may be supported under those programs.

ELIGIBILITY

Eligible clients:

• Clients to whom the AFNQL must provide services include:
• All Aboriginal people in the province of Quebec living outside Aboriginal communities, independently of their place of birth or status under the Indian Act, and all local organizations controlled by Aboriginal people.
• The AFNQL ensures that all Aboriginal clients who are women, young people or disabled people have equal access to its measures.

Employability dimensions

The following four dimensions which pertain to labour market integration:

1. Career/Occupational Decision-making: the process of exploring and analyzing career or occupation options, with a focus on making a suitable and firm career or occupational choice.
2. Skills Enhancement: the acquisition of skills required for a specific occupation or of generic skills such as literacy, interpersonal and self-management skills. This is often designated as job preparation or training.
3. Job Search: the process of using labour market information, identifying job opportunities, contacting employers, completing job applications, participating in job interviews, and being hired. This dimension includes all activities directly associated with integration or re-integration into the labor market.
4. Employment Maintenance: the process of establishing job stability by maintaining or retaining a job after being hired.

EMPLOYABILITY MEASURES

C1 Provide employers with incentives so that clients can integrate the labour market and acquire experience.

Offer individuals an opportunity to acquire work experience with employers while receiving supervision from competent staff.

Provide young people who have difficulty in finding a job with access to personal and vocational development programs, job skill development and work experience by taking part in projects, workshops, etc.

C2 Is To help clients wishing to start small businesses, normally during the first year of operations.

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Fiscal year

The period commencing on April 1 in one calendar year and ending on March 31 in the next calendar year.

FNHRDCQ

The First Nations Human Resources Development Commission of Quebec is mandated by the AFNQL to implement decisions concerning the provision of services and measures that ensure the integration/reintegration of Quebec’s urban clientele into the labour market, in a standardised, unified framework.

Full-time student

A person who, at the time of requesting assistance, is registered as a full-time student at an educational institution in the current academic year or has been admitted as a full-time student at an educational institution in the immediately upcoming academic year and intending to return to school on a full-time basis in the following academic year.

Funded client

A client for whom an action plan has been opened and an intervention approved that requires payment by the AFNQL directly to the client or on behalf of the client pursuant to a program set out in Schedule B.

FUNDING AGREEMENT

Agreement between Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) and the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL) in regards to human resources development for urban clients.

Funding period

The period beginning on April 1, 2005 and ending March 31, 2009.

Goods and services

The materials and services required for the delivery of programs funded under this Agreement.

GST (Goods and Services Tax)

The 7% tax on the consumption or supply of goods and services, applicable in all provinces except Newfoundland & Labrador, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) is in effect.

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HRDC

Department of Human Resources Development Canada

HRSD

Canada's Department of Human Resources and Skills Development

Informative partnership

A informative relationship where the purpose is to share information between/among an Aboriginal AFNQL and other entities with the stated goal to assist in furthering Aboriginal labour market participation. Types of partnership entities include: other parts of HRSDC, other federal departments, provincial/territorial departments, municipalities, learning institutions, indigenous learning institutions, private sector, and other partnerships.

Intervention

An action/activity or series of actions/activities selected jointly by a client and case manager, in consultation with an AHRDA or AHRDA-supported service provider. An intervention is provided through a program or service; it is identified as a step within an action plan and is intended to assist the client to overcome identified employment barriers in order to make a transition to the labour market.

LOCAL FIRST NATIONS COMMISSIONS (LFNC)

Local entities mandated by, and accountable to their band Councils to administer resources for employment and training.

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MEASURES

The measures listed in Schedule B to the agreement, to be designed or implemented by urban service delivery points and local First Nations commissions to support or improve the development of the client’s skills, capacities and knowledge for the labour market.

PARTICIPANTS

A participant is someone who participates in a measure.

Persons with disabilities

Those persons who self-identify as having a physical, mental or learning impairment that affects their ability to obtain or maintain employment.

PLAN OF ACTION

An employment counsellor at a service delivery point or LFNC will help the client to draw up a plan of action. The counsellor will propose activities, options and programs available in the area that might help the client to find sustainable employment. The plan of action is a review of the individual that allows the counsellor to:

• Gather data on the client’s knowledge, experience, potential, motivation, values and objectives;
• Establish the client’s needs, strengths and weaknesses and the skills he or she needs to acquire to obtain suitable employment;
• Decide on the actions to be taken and identify the steps and methods used to achieve the client’s professional goals.

The employment counsellor develops the plan of action with the client. The client and employment counsellor must also approve the plan, and the client undertakes to follow it. The employment counsellor monitors the plan of action and records the results.

The plan of action agreed upon by the client and employment counsellor will include a timetable.

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Program administration costs

Refers to the following costs incurred by the AFNQL in administering the programs:

• (a) overhead costs such as the costs of wages and salaries of employees, related benefits, travel costs, rental of office space, equipment rentals or purchases, office supplies, utilities, telephone and insurance, and other costs necessary to ensure the adequate delivery of the programs, including those of the appeal and/or dispute resolution processes;
• (b) capital costs necessary to ensure the adequate delivery of the programs; and
• (c) special organizational capacity building costs as may be set out in the Capacity Building Plan attached as Schedule F.

Program assistance costs

The costs of financial assistance or other payments provided by the AFNQL under the programs, to persons and organizations that are eligible for funding under the programs.

Programs

The human resources development programs described throughout this Web site.

Project

A activity within one of the programs funded under this Agreement and provided by the AFNQL or one of its sub-agreement holders.

Project Sponsor

A individual, employer, group or organizations that receives funds (EI Part II or CRF) from the AFNQL to carry out or implement a project activity that will achieve AHRDA objectives.

PROMOTER

An employer legally recognized under the Quebec and Canadian legislation governing institutions.

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QST (Quebec sales tax)

An 8% tax applied to the consumption or supply of goods and services in the Province of Quebec.

Savings to provincial Social Assistance programs

The aggregate of savings calculated for each Social Assistance client who returns to work before the end of a 52-week period that begins with the intervention start date. The number of weeks between the intervention start date and the employment start date is subtracted from 52, and the difference is multiplied by the average weekly individual Social Assistance rate.

SPOUSE WITH INCOME

Spouse with income from any source.

Sub-agreement holder

A entity with which the AFNQL has an agreement to deliver programs as described in Schedule B of this Agreement.

SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE MEASURES

A1 To acquire relevant information on the labour market and educational community in order to identify the services and means that will allow the client to integrate the labour market (documentation centre, job bank, Internet, job postings, educational and professional information, etc.). Mobility assistance during the job search.

A2 Provide the client with professional services that will allow him or her to establish job integration strategies (counselling, guidance counsellor, information session, job search techniques, etc.).

A3 Support and develop approaches aimed at adapting or preparing innovative methods of improving a situation through research, surveys, reports, specific mandates, development strategies, etc.

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Third party

1. An individual program participant in receipt of direct financial assistance from the AFNQL under a program;
2. a project sponsor in receipt of financial assistance from the AFNQL under a program to carry out a project under a program; or
3. an organization funded by the AFNQL and acting as a delivery agent to coordinate the delivery of the programs in a particular locality and further distribute funding to other organizations and individuals under the programs.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT MEASURES

B1 To allow clients or groups of clients to acquire vocational skills related to a given job.

B2 For adult clients who wish to:
Acquire the prerequisites for vocational training and/or a trade;
Complete their high school education in order to move on to post /secondary education.

B3 This measure is intended for clients with jobs who need to enhance their skills in order to remain competitive on the labour market.

Also allows employers to train new employees.

URBAN SERVICE DELIVERY POINTS

The Urban Service delivery points offer employment and training services, including counselling, assistance, information and referrals, and also offer labour market integration and reintegration tools and means for First Nations and Inuit clients living in urban areas.

Un-funded client

A client for whom an action plan has been established and an intervention or interventions approved that do not require the AFNQL to make payments directly to the client or on the client’s behalf.

Unpaid benefits

The aggregate of savings calculated for each EI client who returns to work before the end of the EI benefit period. The number of weeks of entitlement minus the number of weeks of benefit paid are multiplied by the benefit rate.

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