HFN Job Opportunity

Hupacasath members and anyone interested,

 I was successful in receiving some funds from the Job opportunities Program.

The work will consist of trail maintenance, fence building, re-vegetation, and bringing Cathedral Grove Provincial Park up to the park standards. I attached the worker eligibility criteria on the second page. If you are interested in applying please drop a cover letter and resume off at the Hupacasath  House of Gathering located on Ahahahswinis Drive  just off of Beaver creek Road. Make sure you explain why you think you qualify under the worker eligibility in your cover letter and please get it to Steven Tatoosh Natural Resource Manager for the Hupacasath Nation by Friday January 29^th 2010. Also submit any information regarding the worker eligibility criteria that may help you get this job, so read it carefully. If you have any questions give Steven a call at 250-735-2334.

Sincerely,

Steven Tatoosh

Natural Resource Manager

Hupacasath First Nation.

250-724-4041 ext# 26

250-735-2334

Job Opportunities Program

Worker Eligibility

Recipients of Job Opportunities Program funding must make an effort through job postings and advertising to notify unemployed resource workers in the project area of upcoming employment opportunities funded by the program.

To qualify as an unemployed resource worker under the Job Opportunities Program, a worker must meet all four of the following Job Opportunities Program Worker Eligibility Requirements. Please note that these requirements differ from those for other Community Development Trust programs:

• The worker’s resource employment was in forestry, fishing, agriculture, mining, or manufacturing.
• The worker lives in British Columbia and his or her primary occupation for at least two of the past three full years has been working in a B.C. resource industry as an employee of a company, a contractor, a sub contractor, or as an independent owner/operator.
• At least 65 per cent of the worker’s earned income has come from resource industry work in at least two of the past three years.
•  The worker lost his or her resource sector job on or after May 1, 2007 due to:

       permanent shift reduction, closure or workforce reduction; or,

       involuntary lay-off or loss of contract work of more than, or expected to be more than, four months.

Documents that may help workers prove their eligibility include Records of Employment, layoff notices, contracts and correspondence and/or tax forms.

Workers who meet all four of these requirements may wish to contact organizations that are funded for job opportunities created under the Job Opportunities Program. Each funded recipient is responsible for its own hiring.

Workers are not eligible if:

• their loss of work was due to a regular seasonal break, or
• they resigned voluntarily, or
• they were terminated for cause, or
• they are an owner/manager, director or officer, except in the case of independent owner/operators.

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