BILL NO. 93
(as introduced)
1st Session, 65th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
3 Charles III, 2025
Private Member's Public Bill
Workforce Expansion Act
The Honourable Derek Mombourquette
Sydney–Membertou
First Reading: March 19, 2025
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
An Act to Expand Nova Scotia's Workforce
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Workforce Expansion Act.
(a) subject to Section 3, create a fund to invest in industry-led training pathways to increase employment rates for under-employed groups, including Indigenous persons, African Nova Scotians and persons with disabilities;
(b) review procurement regulations and policies to set standards ensuring that large projects require a certain percentage of the work to be performed by apprentices from under-employed groups, including Indigenous persons, African Nova Scotians and persons with disabilities; and
(c) within six months of the coming into force of this Section, develop and table in the House of Assembly a plan to ensure that the employment rate for First Nations and African Nova Scotians is equal to the provincial average by 2035.
3 The money required for the purpose of this Act must be paid out of money appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.
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