Employment Prospects for Aboriginal People

An additional 160,000 jobs will be needed between 1991 and 2006 to maintain current Aboriginal-labour force participation rates and levels of employment. How will Aboriginal communities, the government and the private sector deal with the challenge?

Document Highlights

A corporate Aboriginal employment strategy is a proactive approach to achieving representation in all occupations and at different levels of the workforce based on the proportion of Aboriginal people in the local population. Such strategies support the acquisition of skills and improve Aboriginal employment prospects.

The firms profiled in this study illustrate a number of creative approaches to promoting greater Aboriginal employment.

• Part of the corporate culture and strategy—Cameco;
• Diversity—CIBC;
• High-tech employment opportunities—SaskTel; and
• Maximizing local employment through education and training—Syncrude.