Human Resources and Employment

Employment and Immigration

Albertans deserve access to good jobs and safe workplaces.

The Official Opposition has clear priorities for employment and immigration in the province:

• Ensure that Alberta’s workers have access to the skills development services and academic upgrading programs they will need to succeed in an increasingly knowledge-based economy and society.

• Provide temporary income support benefits that are fair and equitable to Albertans who have lost their jobs as a result of the economic crisis.

• Lobby the federal government to rectify imbalances in the Employment Insurance (EI) program that disadvantages out-of-work Albertans.

• Redirect Alberta’s immigration focus away from the flawed temporary foreign worker program by expanding access to the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program.

• Expand the Employment Standards Code to include protections for farm workers and adopt a farm safety program to promote safety in the farming community.

• Conduct a thorough, long-overdue review of the Alberta Labour Code to ensure that Alberta’s labour relations system properly protects collective bargaining rights.