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The lowest level of national unemployment came in 1947 with a 2.2% unemployment rate, a result of the smaller pool of available workers caused by casualties from the Second World War. The highest level of unemployment throughout Canada was set in December 1982, when the early 1980s recession resulted in 13.1% of the adult population being out ...
Public agencies are generally (with a few exceptions) created and regulated under the Alberta Public Agencies Governance Act (APAGA), which stipulates their responsibilities, restrictions, and general structures. [1] Many public agencies are also subject to more specific legislation and acts.
The energy industry provided 7.7% of all jobs in Alberta in 2013, [7] and 140,300 jobs representing 6.1% of total employment of 2,286,900 in Alberta in 2017. [11] The unemployment rate in Alberta peaked in November 2016 at 9.1%. Its lowest point in a ten-year period from July 2009 to July 2019, was in September 2013 at 4.3%. [12]
The Unemployment Insurance Act 1920 created the dole system of payments for unemployed workers in the United Kingdom. [8] The dole system provided 39 weeks of unemployment benefits to over 11,000,000 workers—practically the entire civilian working population except domestic service, farmworkers, railway men, and civil servants.
The Department of Human Resources and Skills Development was created in December 2003, when Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) was split into two separate departments: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) and Social Development Canada (SDC). Though they continued to share many common services and operations, Human ...
AIMCo manages one of Canada's largest public pools of funds with assets under management totalling $160.6 billion (2023). AIMCo manages the assets on behalf of 375,000 members of provincial public pension and retirement plans, endowments, government funds, and other public accounts, including the $22.07 billion Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund.
Boards, agencies, and local government: employees of quasi-independent boards set up by the government of Alberta, government agencies, and municipal governments, as well as ATB Financial (a wholly-owned provincial crown corporation) and Alberta Terminals Ltd., [2] a private grain-handling company and division of Cargill that was formerly a ...
LAPP, formerly known by its expanded acronym, the Local Authorities Pension Plan, is the largest pension plan in Alberta and the seventh largest in Canada.. With 291,259 members and $58.7 billion in assets (2022), LAPP is a multi-employer jointly sponsored [3] defined benefit pension plan.