Organizations delivering Skills Development Fund Training Stream under an agreement with the Ministry of Labour,Immigration, Training and Skills Development (the “Ministry”) are required to make its records available to theMinistry for inspection, investigation or audit.
For those organizations in a Partnership Agreement with a lead organization, please note that the lead organizationhas an agreement with the Ministry. In accordance with the Partnership Agreement your information will be sharedwith the lead organization. The lead organization, in turn, will share your information with the Ministry. The partnership agreement requires that your organization make its records available to the lead organization. In turn,the lead organization will share your information with the Ministry for inspection, investigation, or audit, asappropriate and as necessary.
Your organization/the lead organization in the consortia is also required to report to the Ministry on:
• The service it tailors and provides you;
• Your employment progress and outcome; and
• Your satisfaction with the services you receive.
The Ministry will also collect relevant personal information about you from the Government of Canada (Canada) ifnecessary. The purpose of this information is to determine your eligibility for Employment Insurance benefits, thenature and level of Employment Insurance benefits, and to monitor, assess and evaluate the effectiveness ofSkills Development Fund Training Stream. Depending on the type of service or support you receive and anyincentives available to your employer to hire you, your organization or the Ministry may also collect personalinformation about you from your employer. The Ministry may use contractors and auditors to administer andfinance Skills Development Fund Training Stream.
Administration includes:
• Assessing the performance of your organization, its effectiveness, efficiency and customer service results;monitoring, inspecting, investigating, auditing and enforcing your organization's compliance with itsagreement with the ministry.
• Planning, evaluating and monitoring Skills Development Fund Training Stream - this includes conductingsurveys, and conducting policy and statistical analysis and research related to all aspects of SkillsDevelopment Fund Training Stream. You may be contacted to request your voluntary participation insurveys.
• Promoting Skills Development Fund Training Stream - you may be contacted to request your voluntaryparticipation in public relations campaigns related to Skills Development Fund Training Stream.
If you are a client of, or applying to, the Ontario Disability Support Program or Ontario Works, the Ministry willprovide your personal information to the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS) for thepurposes of administering employment services and managing the participation of MCCSS clients withinemployment support programs under the Ontario Works Act, 1997, and the Ontario Disability Support ProgramAct, 1997.
Skills Development Fund Training Stream is funded by the Ministry, in part with funds provided by Canada underPart II of the Employment Insurance Act. When funds are provided by Canada, the ministry is required to provideinformation to Canada to help monitor and assess the Employment Insurance Program, as required under s.3 ofthe Employment Insurance Act.
Under the Labour Market Development Agreement between Canada and Ontario (LMDA) and the WorkforceDevelopment Agreement between Canada and Ontario (WDA), the Ministry is required to collect social insurancenumbers from EI beneficiaries to request approval to continue to receive regular EI benefits in order to take part intraining programs and other employment activities.
The Ministry collects your personal information pursuant to the LMDA and WDA, ss. 3 and 63 of the EmploymentInsurance Act, S.C. 1996, C.23 as amended, and s.76.29 of the Employment Insurance Regulations,SOR/96-332. The Ministry will collect personal information from clients who identify as Ontario Disability SupportProgram or Ontario Works recipients and disclose your personal information to MCCSS in accordance with thes.71 of the Ontario Works Act, 1997, and s.53 of the Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997.
For more information about the collection and use of your personal information to administer and finance SkillsDevelopment Fund Training Stream, you can contact the Manager, Employment Ontario Call Centre, in writing atthe Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, 33 Bloor Street East, 2nd Floor, Toronto,Ontario M7A 2S3 or by phoneat 1-800-387-5656. For the hearing impaired, TTY is available at 1-866-533-6339.