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Four National Women's Groups: CCLOW
· CFWEC · CRIAW · NOIVMWC
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Summary of
Recommendations
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Support training models which have been demonstrated
to be effective for women, by providing adequate resources. These models
include: bridging programs, woman-positive basic skills training, advanced
skills training in non-traditional areas, positive measures/gender sensitivity
training and community economic development training.
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Return the UI Fund to an unemployment insurance
program exclusively, and allocate other funds for other purposes, notably
training and income support.
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Provide UI coverage for everyone in the paid labour
force, including part-time, temporary, self-employed, "home work", and other
"non-standard" work.
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Regardless of other changes to UI, ensure that
maternity and parental leave benefits are protected (e.g. are not included in
the "three claims in five years" provision).
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Do not tie UI eligibility to participation in
training programs or community work.
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Assess employers for their UI contribution on the
basis of their total payroll, including non-standard work.
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Ensure child care is universally accessible in Canada
by the year 2005.
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In consultation with the provinces, territories and
aboriginal communities, develop a Child Care Action Plan, based on a set of
principles, framed by fiscal and social policies which accommodate diverse
regional circumstances, and bound by targets and a timetable
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Develop a national program that is responsive to the
special needs of rural and remote women, women and children with disabilities,
and which is culturally appropriate for women and children of colour,
Aboriginal women and children, immigrants and refugees.
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Make language training available to everyone who
immigrates to Canada.
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