Ontario. Office of Labour Adjustment

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Office of Labour Adjustment

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Office of Labour Adjustment

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1991-1996

      History

      The Office of Labour Adjustment was created in 1991 within the Operations Division of the Ontario Ministry of Labour; it replaced the Employment Adjustment Branch. Transition/Help Centres reported through the Office. The Office of Labour Adjustment was transferred to the Ontario Training and Adjustment Board (OTAB) in 1993.

      The Office of Labour Adjustment was dissolved in 1996 and the Adjustment Advisory Program became part of the Workplace Support Services Branch, Training Division, Ontario Ministry of Education and Training.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Office of Labour Adjustment provides programs and services to organizations and communities to assist workers to adapt to actual or potential loss of work. Services include the establishment and delivery of assistance programs for displaced workers; provision of expertise on displacement issues; and the provision of employment and vocational counselling and training information through the Help Centre Program.

      Address

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Labour (1972-)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA43

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Labour controls Ontario. Office of Labour Adjustment

      Dates of relationship

      1991-1993

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario Training and Adjustment Board (1993-1996)

      Identifier of related entity

      BA61

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario Training and Adjustment Board controls Ontario. Office of Labour Adjustment

      Dates of relationship

      1993- 1996

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Workplace Support Services Branch (1995-2008)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA114

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Workplace Support Services Branch is the successor of Ontario. Office of Labour Adjustment

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA95

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

      Status

      Approved

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          KWIK Index to Government Services

          Ontario Government Telephone Directories

          Archivist's Collection Files

          Maintenance notes

          Not found in Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24

          Archivist(s):
          R. Anger