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2001-2002 budget appropriations and work force of the Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale

Ministère de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale

The 2001–2002 budget of the Emploi et Solidarité sociale portfolio was approximately $3,913.6 million. The Department’s budgetary structure is composed of three programs:

1. Employment assistance measures
2. Financial assistance measures
3. Management support

The Department has five special funds in the Emploi et Solidarité sociale portfolio. They are financed by appropriations approved by the National Assembly and allocated to the Department’s three programs; by own-source revenues; and by revenue decreed by the government. A detailed breakdown of these funds can be found in the 2001–2002 Annual Management Report.

1. The Fonds d’aide à l’action communautaire autonome
   (Assistance Fund for Independent Community Action)
2. The Fonds de développement du marché du travail
   (Labour Market Development Fund)
3. The Fonds de lutte contre la pauvreté par la réinsertion au travail
   (Fund to Combat Poverty Through Reintegration Into the Labour Market)
4. The Fonds des technologies de l’information
   (Information Technology Fund)
5. The Fonds national de formation de la main-d’œuvre
   (Provincial Labour Training Fund)

Program 1: “Employment Assistance Measures”

The purpose of this program is to provide funding for Emploi-Québec and the Commission des partenaires du marché du travail (CPMT) and to develop labour and employment policies.

> $961.5 million

Program 2: “Financial Assistance Measures”

The purpose of this program is provide financial assistance through the Sécurité du revenu network to any citizens who applies and demonstrates a the need for such assistance. More specifically, the program enables individuals to receive last resort assistance equal to the difference between their resources and their identified essential needs. It also pays low-income individuals with dependent children a supplement based on their employment income as an incentive to remain in or enter the labour market. In addition, the program gives the Office de la sécurité du revenu des chasseurs et piégeurs cris the amounts required to support the traditional activities of members of the Cree community. Lastly, it aims to develop income security policies.

> $2,754 million

Program 3: “Management Support”

The purpose of this program is to plan, administer, and coordinate the human, financial, material, and information resources essential to the program management.

> $198.1 million

Comparative Budget Table

Comparison of Financial Information

	2001-2002		2000-2001
	Expenditure Budget 1	Real Expenditures 2	Real Expenditures 3	Difference
Employment Assistance Measures	961 464,9	957 713,9	961 541,0	(3 827,1)
Financial Assistance Measures	2 753 974,5	2 893 842,7	2 909 566,0	(15 723,3)
Management Support	198 157,2	214 554,9		15 638,9
Total	3 913 596,6	4 066 115,5	4 070 023,0	(3 911,5)

1. Expenditure budget according to the 2001–2002 Annual Management Expenditure Plan.
2. Real expenditures may vary slightly with respect to public accounts figures given that adjustments may be made by the Contrôleur des finances prior to publication of the public accounts.
3. Expenditures according to the 2000–20001 public accounts.

Employees

As at March 31, 2002, the Department had 7,579 employees, i.e., a decrease of less than 1% with respect to the preceding fiscal year. The number of regular employees increased during the last fiscal year, rising from 5,508 to 6,060, an increase of approximately 10%. This increase in regular employees can be explained mainly by the regularization of casual personnel1. This figure excludes City of Montréal employees, i.e., 268 Emploi-Québec employees who were loaned to the Department but who were subject to the working conditions of the City, and 823 Sécurité du revenu employees who were overseen by the city but who cooperated with the Sécurité du revenu mission through a delegation of duties administrative agreement.

For the 2001–2002 financial year, the Department received a total of 7,041 FTEs (full-time equivalents) from the Secretariat of the Conseil du trésor, including 6,337 regular and 704 casual equivalents. During the last financial year, the Department used a total of 7,301 FTEs, i.e., 260 more than the authorized number, which is acceptable under the existing regulation.

Note 1 : The process of regularizing the status of casual employees stabilized the situation of a number of people who had been working at the Department for a certain time. A number of casual employees became regular employees, either on the recommendation of the supervisor for those who had worked 55 consecutive months over a 60 month period, or through a competition reserved for those who had worked 12 consecutive months over a 15 month period.