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PETL-Adjustment Services
Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour - PETL
Last Verified:
2008-02-19
This document is based on information from the Government of New Brunswick (Services) Web site, February 2008.
The Adjustment Services is a measure used by the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour to encourage, support, and facilitate human resource management and labour force adjustments.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants eligible for funding would include, but not limited to:
- Employers;
- Employee/er Associations;
- Communities and community groups; and
- Industry Associations.
Adjustment Services activities would contain the following characteristics:
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Must involve partnerships;
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Should promote ongoing capacity to address a labour market issue or issues;
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Assistance is finite. Although a series of agreements may be signed with the same sponsor, the agreements must state specific project outcomes and timeframes and not be reliant on a future agreement for success;
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Should affect people who are in the labour market, or about to enter or re-enter the labour market.
Summary
Adjustment Services is a measure used by the Department to encourage, support and facilitate human resource management and labour market adjustments, which are in the public interest. Adjustment Services provides funding to various groups in an effort to improve their capacity for dealing with human resource requirements and to implement labour force adjustments. Adjustment Services addresses labour market issues through partnerships.
Labour market issues are generally characterized by an imbalance between the supply and demand sides of the labour market. The two biggest indicators of a labour market issue in a community, region or province, are unfilled jobs and high unemployment. Labour market issues result from such situations as:
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Company difficulties resulting in jobs being threatened;
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Industry downsizing;
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Industry upsizing, new development, relocation;
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Impact of new technologies;
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Labour shortages;
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Shortage of year round opportunities; and
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Lack of community and organizational capacity for human resource management.
For additional information on Adjustment Services, call the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour at 506-453-3818 or your closest regional office. Or visit their Internet site at: http://www.gnb.ca/0311/index-e.asp.
New Brunswick Contact(s):
Employment Division
Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour
P. O. Box 6000
Fredericton, New Brunswick
E3B 5H1
Telephone: 506-453-3818
Fax: 506-453-7967