Dear ESCLM Members;

You will be familiar with our sector's concern with and response to recent cuts to and limits placed on funding for Employment Ontario programs. 

The ESCLM is soliciting your input and perspectives on recent "limits" placed on the Job Creation Partnership Program. The London-Middlesex region has a history of managing successful JCP projects with appropriate supports and resources to ensure success. In addition to many other initiatives, London JCP participants are currently providing services to job seekers through the Community Access Program, developing employment resource materials, and coordinating a community response to future area layoffs. These are important community projects which are critically dependent on the replacement of outgoing JCPs by new individuals.  

If you, your agency, or other partners benefit from the JCP Program, either directly or indirectly, and you would like to contribute to a community-level response, please contact me with your stories: carol@esclm.ca.

New Rules for Second Career

Please find attached a letter from Laurie LeBlanc, Assistant Deputy Minister of Employment and Training Division, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities for Service Providers. (en français).

An information sheet is attached outlining the changes to Second Career. (en français).

Employment/Literacy Roundtable

ESCLM Members, you are INVITED TO ROUNDTABLE 2

What: A roundtable for identifying community options and actions for the Integrating Literacy and Employment Project

Please join us to contribute your ideas for: 

 Tools, Resources, Supports
 Integrated Service Delivery Models
 Joint Service Planning
 Client Paths

for integrated literacy and employment sectors for improved client service.

When: Monday, November 30, 2009, 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Where: Skill Centre, 6th Floor Boardroom
141 Dundas Street

Learn more... 

Please RSVP by Wednesday, November 25, 2009 to jenkirkham02@gmail.com

Latest Labour Market Monitor

Attached please find a draft copy of the London Labour Market Monitor for October 2009 in Adobe Acrobat format for the tri-county area of Middlesex, Elgin and Oxford counties. This report will be available in the near future in both official languages on our website. I hope you will find the Labour Market Monitor useful for your purposes.

Regards,
Mary Anne Fox
Labour Market Information Analyst
Service Canada

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Employment: Who's hiring?

The Globe and Mail, Tavia Grant, Published on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 8:42AM EST

The labour market may be soft, but some companies, such as Canada's big banks, are hiring.

Read more...

Regards,

Carol Stewart
Project Manager

Employment Sector Council London-Middlesex
141 Dundas Street, 4th Floor, London ON N6A 1G3
Phone: 519.663.0774 ext. 224 Fax: 519.663.5377
carol@esclm.ca  www.esclm.ca

Congrats ClothingWorks!

Honored at last week's Pillar Nonprofit Network community innovation awards, ClothingWorks is the winner of this year's Community Colllaboration Award.

Well-deserving of this award, CW is an excellent example of an innovative service that provides much support to job seekers. A service provided to all our ESCLM member clients, it helps job seekers learn to dress for the workplace and provides interview and work-appropriate clothing for that critical first work impression. 

A busy month for CAP

Please join us in welcoming 13 newly certified Common Assessment Process Practitioners to the ESCLM network.

Congratulations also to the 15 agency staff members who successfully completed the Employment Resource Centre workshop on "Understanding CAP and Community Employment Resources." 

"Automotive" Newsletter

The Council for Automotive Human Resources (CAHR) November Newsletter is available for your review. 

Labour Film Festival

Canadian Labour International Film Festival: national scope, global vision, universal appeal

SATURDAY, 28 NOVEMBER
WOLF PERFORMANCE HALL
241 DUNDAS STREET, LONDON

IMAGINE A WORLD where thousands of films are
made about workers and the conditions under which
they live, work, fight, and succeed in their daily
lives! 2009 will mark the first-ever Canadian Labour Film
Festival.

Poster and Schedule 

Apprenticeship Info

Please see the attached poster for the upcoming apprenticeship info session at Beacock Library. Please feel free to post and share.

Also note that this is the last session until March when they resume.

Eat Your Way at the Top! 

Eat Your Way at the Top
is back: November 26th, 2009

Appetizer, Salads, Macaroni and Cheese, Desserts and Beverages

6th Floor Boardroom, The Skill Centre

2 different sittings: 12:00-1:00 OR 1:00-2:00
$7.00/ticket, all proceeds will go to United Way.

Contact Anh (AnhM@wil.ca ) and specify for your time preference for your tickets