3A helps Albertans obtain additional job skills and applicable work experience through uniting job seekers and employers needs together. Through this program, 3A Clients become employees while the program pays prospective employers for providing applicable on-the-job training to the client.

The Workplace Training (On The Job) Program Provides the Following Benefits to Job Seekers and Employers:

•  It helps clients who may have the right skills but need extra job experience
•  It helps clients who need to learn basic job skills while in a work setting
•  It links unemployed Albertans directly with employers
•  It encourages employers to train and hire unemployed people

The Workplace Training program is oriented to help Albertans acquire transferable occupational skills and directly applicable work experience under prospective employers.  Participating Albertans become full-time employees for up to 24 weeks while their prospective employers are reimbursed for the job training and the work experience provided.

Client Eligibility Requirements

Participants must be unemployed, residing in Alberta, legally entitled to work in Canada, and:

•  Insured Employment Insurance participants who

   

  - have established an active claim; or

  - established and ended their benefit period within the previous 36 months, or

  - were paid maternity (parental) benefits in the previous 60 months and are now returning to work

OR

•  Eligible for provincial welfare benefits

OR

•  Unemployed (not working or only working sporadically to supplement the family income) and not EI or SFI eligible.

Participants must also:

•  Be ready, willing, and able to benefit from Workplace Training

•  Have been experiencing difficulty in obtaining work because they need more job specific training or retraining and additional experience to achieve viable employment

•  Have sufficient literacy and numerical skills to benefit from training (not less than Grade 9 level)

•  Have sufficient health to participate in and benefit from training

Priority for Workplace Training may be given to participants who can demonstrate the greatest potential for return on investment, and who are:

•  Active EI claimants who apply early in their EI claim.  At least 65% of the participants must be active claimants

•  Active welfare claimants

•  Repeat users of EI and SFI benefits

Employer Eligibility Requirements

To be eligible for the Workplace Training program, employers must demonstrate:

•  The ability and experience to deliver Workplace Training with attention to transferable occupational skills

•  Potential to provide trainees with continued employment after the Workplace Training is completed

•  Compliance with Alberta labour standards, employment code, and other applicable regulations

•  Financial stability and accountability

Note:  Federal and provincial governments are not eligible for Workplace Training.

For more information on type of services involved in a WT, the duration of WT, and applicable payments made to employers, please contact us.