Translation of "séance d'orientation professionnelle " (French → English) :

The personalised services which are to be provided to workers made redundant consist of Information sessions, intake and registration, Counselling and guidance, Skills assessment, General training and re-training, Vocational training, Coaching, Accompaniment after reintegration into work and accompaniment towards entrepreneurship, Jobsearch allowance, Participation allowance and contribution to commuting expenses and Hiring benefit.

· Occupational guidance and job-search assistance: This will include an individual welcome/information session; profiling; personal and career development sessions – including skills development, career guidance and job-search techniques;

The co-ordinated package of personalised services to be funded, including its compatibility with actions funded by the Structural Funds, includes measures for the reintegration of the 450 targeted workers into employment, such as information and welcome session, preparatory workshops, occupational guidance, orientation towards business-creation or self-employment, training on professional certification, job search techniques, horizontal and vocational skills, entrepreneurship and business management, intensive job-search assistance, t ...[+++]utoring after reintegration into work, certification of prior experience, self-employment opportunities search assistance, on-the-job training, job search allowance, contribution to commuting expenses, outplacement incentives, assistance for carers of dependent persons, on-the-job training allowance.

· Occupational orientation: This includes the development of career perspectives and an individual occupational pathway plan signed by the parties which forms the basis for the workers' subsequent activities within the foundation-like structure (trainer/worker ratio 1:12 or individual sessions where needed).

Hon. David Michael Collenette (Minister of National Defence and Minister of Veterans Affairs) moved: That a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and of the House of Commons be appointed to consider Canada's Defence Policy; That the document entitled ``Review of Canadian Defence Policy, Minister of National Defence Guidance Document'', be referred to the Committee; That the Committee be directed to consult broadly and to analyze the issues discussed in the above-mentioned document, and to make recommendations in their report concerning the objectives and conduct of Canada's Defence Policy; That eleven Members of the House of Commons a ...[+++]nd five Members of the Senate be Members of the Committee; That the Members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs be appointed to act on behalf of the House as Members of the said Committee; That the Committee have the power to sit during sittings and adjournments of the House; That the Committee have the power to report from time to time, to send for persons, papers and records, and to print such papers and evidence from time to time as may be ordered by the Committee; That the Committee have the power to retain the services of expert, professional, technical and clerical staff; That the Committee have the power to adjourn from place to place inside Canada and abroad and that, when deemed necessary, the required staff accompany the Committee; That a quorum of the Committee be nine Members, whenever a vote, resolution or other decision is taken, so long as both Houses are represented and that the Joint Chairmen be authorized to hold meetings, to receive evidence and authorize the printing thereof, whenever six Members are present, so long as both Houses are represented; That the Committee or its representatives meet on occasions it deems fitting with the parliamentary committee or its representatives charged with reviewing Canada's foreign policy; That notwithstanding the usual pr ...