Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act (S.C. 2024, c. 13)

Marginal note:Establishment

• 6 (1) A council is established, to be known as the Sustainable Jobs Partnership Council, whose mandate is to provide the Minister and specified Ministers with independent advice — through a process of social dialogue — with respect to

  • (a) measures, consistent with the shift to a net-zero economy, to foster the creation of sustainable jobs;

  • (b) measures to support workers, communities and regions in the shift to a net-zero economy, including through skills development, training, retraining and economic development and diversification, as well as through national, regional, federal-provincial and federal-territorial initiatives related to the Sustainable Jobs Action Plans; and

  • (c) any matter referred to it by the Minister.

• Marginal note:Establishment of terms of reference

  (2) The Minister must, after consulting with the specified Ministers, establish the terms of reference of the Council.

• Marginal note:Amendments to terms of reference

  (3) The Minister may, after consulting with the specified Ministers and, unless their position is vacant, each co-chair of the Council, amend the terms of reference.

• Marginal note:Terms of reference made public

  (4) The Minister must make the terms of reference and any amendments to them available to the public.