Government of Yukon

Jobs, Employment, Workers, Training and Careers

Advanced Education Branch
Prepares Yukoners for the labour force through education, training, employment and other services.

FireSmart
The FireSmart program provides tools and information about fire protection strategies and emergency planning for homeowners. Protecting your home or community from the threat of fire in the wildland-urban interface is a shared responsibility.

French Language Training (for adults)
Schedules, course descriptions and registration forms.

Heritage Training Fund
Funds limited-term training for Yukon independent heritage workers, groups, and collectives of workers. To enhance and advance their capacity to obtain and create employment and give prospective employers a better trained heritage labour force.

Holidays
General Holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Discovery Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day, and Christmas Day. The public service and some others may also observe Heritage Day, Easter Monday and Boxing Day.

Labour Market Programs
Labour Market programs are available in many areas including: literacy, labour mobility, trade school registration, education obligations and training issues under Land Claims Implementation, services for new immigrants, and other areas.

Labour Services
Labour Services educates employers and employees about the Employment Standards Act, answers inquiries about the Act, investigates wage complaints and more.

Liquor Service Training Program
Be A Responsible Server (B.A.R.S.) is a free training program offered to licensees, premise managers, servers, and permit holders that can be adjusted to suit your specific needs. It is available in-person or in a self-study version.

Minimum Wage regulations
Questions and answers about minimum wage regulations.

Reporting a workplace injury of illness (for a worker)
Report workplace injuries or illnesses online.

Reporting workplace injury or illness (for an employer)
Report a worker's illness or injury online, to the Yukon Workers' Comensataion Health and Safety Board.

Tradesperson Qualifications
Apprenticeship combines supervised, on-the-job training with classroom instruction at a technical institute. In Yukon, you can train as an apprentice in 43 different trades.

Worker Safety
Worker's rights, responsibilities and more...

Worker's Advocate
Advocates on behalf of injured workers. Main duty is to advise workers and dependants of deceased workers on the workers' compensation process, and the meaning and effect of compensation claims.

Yukon Youth Conservation Corps (Y2C2)
A summer employment and training program for Yukon students (aged 16 and up), with an emphasis on environmental work and learning.