National Adult Literacy Database

Canada’s premiers have announced the recipients of the seventh annual Council of the Federation Literacy Award. Presented in each province and territory, the award celebrates outstanding achievement, innovative practice and excellence in literacy. The winners are...

Essential Skills Day shines an important spotlight on the nine essential skills as defined by the Government of Canada, and will convene employers, governments, unions and the literacy field in various initiatives to celebrate the importance of workplace essential skills.

Canadians who performed unpaid work, such as housework, childcare and civic and voluntary activities, reported spending four hours and four minutes on these activities on any given day in 2010, up eight minutes from 1998.

“Literacy is a very important life skill. It’s difficult ... to think of a job for which literacy wouldn’t be a useful skill to have, and of course it’s not like you see retired people sitting around saying, ‘Now that I’m out of the labour force, I never have occasion to read.’ ”

This resource provides employers, trainers and educators, labour unions and other professional groups concerned with workplace skills development a starting point to actively incorporate informal learning into the learning toolbox of the Canadian workplace.

The Government of Canada is taking action to address skills shortages so Canadians can train for jobs in a changing economy. There are significant shortages in many key industries including healthcare, IT and skilled trades, but as more industries take part in this new information-sharing strategy the list of employers seeking skilled workers will continue to grow.

The unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.4 per cent as the number of people participating in the labour market increased. Over the past 12 months, employment has grown by 238,000 (+1.4%).

The Centre for Skills Development & Training, through funding from HRSDC’s Office of Literacy and Essential Skills and in partnership with the Halton Industry Education Council, has developed educational video games targeted at young adults aged 15-30 to help enhance their employability.

The work week just before your vacation is likely to be tough for one reason or another. If you’ve been hunkering down in the corner plowing through reams of work diligently and quietly, suddenly you will be noticed and really put to work.

Chief financial officers who put most of their energy into number crunching are missing tremendous opportunities to contribute leadership and vision to their companies, according to a new study of Canadian CFOs.

Why isn't knowledge transfer happening more often in companies spending money on it? Maybe it's because their staff don't always want to share.

The Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy and Learning Award recognizes individuals for their outstanding achievement in increasing workplace literacy and essential skills in their community.

Megan Wisser changed her career path and enrolled as a steamfitter/pipefitter, an occupation that few women traditionally take on. "There are not many females in the trades - a few," she says.

Learn@Work Week is an annual celebration of learning in the workplace. Hosted by the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD), the week is an opportunity for businesses, governments and not-for-profit organizations to share their learning initiatives with their employees and the public.

According to a CROP survey conducted in May for the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines agréés, more than half the workers in Quebec don’t have enough vacation time to recharge their batteries and this trend is on the rise.