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HOME WORKER [22 records]

Record 1 2023-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Social Services and Social Work
CONT

The personal support worker profile is designed to give [a person] the opportunity to develop the skills required to provide personal support services to consumers and their families, clients and residents in the community, at home, and in long-term care facilities and institutions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Services sociaux et travail social

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2023-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 3 - external organization data 2023-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 4 - external organization data 2023-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 5 - external organization data 2023-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 6 - external organization data 2023-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 7 - external organization data 2023-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 8 - external organization data 2023-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)
Key term(s)
  • home care worker

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 9 - external organization data 2023-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 10 - external organization data 2023-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)
Key term(s)
  • family care giver

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 11 - external organization data 2023-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 12 2022-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
  • Sociology of Work
  • Industrial and Economic Psychology
CONT

"Fly-in/fly-out" [refers] to a set of work arrangements for resource operations that are typically located at a distance from other existing communities. The work involves a roster system in which employees spend a certain number of days working on site, after which they return to their home communities for a specified rest period. Typically the employer organizes and pays for transportation to and from the worksite and for worker accommodations and other services at or near the worksite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
  • Sociologie du travail
  • Psychologie industrielle et économique
CONT

La distanciation du lieu de domicile et du lieu de travail n'est pas un phénomène nouveau. [...] la pratique du navettage aérien a ceci de particulier que les allers-retours entre résidence et lieu de travail se font par avion sur de grandes distances et sur des périodes de moyennes amplitudes (7, 10 ou 14 jours). [...] cette forme de mobilité [...] a été popularisée par la mine de nickel [...] située dans l'extrême nord de la province.

OBS

FIFO : fly-in fly-out

Spanish

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Record 13 2021-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Sociology of the Family
OBS

The Home Support Worker Pilot is s 5-year pilot program that lets qualified caregivers and their family members come to Canada with the goal of becoming permanent residents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Sociologie de la famille
OBS

Le Programme pilote des aides familiaux à domicile est un programme pilote de 5 ans qui permet aux fournisseurs de soins qualifiés et aux membres de leur famille de venir au Canada dans le but de devenir résidents permanents.

Spanish

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Record 14 2019-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Religion (General)
DEF

A Christian missionary working in his or her own country as opposed to abroad.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Religion (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 15 2017-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names
  • Domestic Duties
Universal entry(ies)
4412
classification system code
OBS

Home support workers provide personal care and companionship for seniors, persons with disabilities and convalescent clients. Care is provided within the client's residence, in which the home support worker may also reside. They are employed by home care and support agencies, private households, or they may be self-employed. Housekeepers perform housekeeping and other home management duties in private households and other non-institutional, residential settings.

OBS

4412: classification system code in the National Occupational Classification.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
  • Travaux domestiques
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
4412
classification system code
OBS

Les aides familiaux résidentiels fournissent des soins personnels aux personnes âgées, handicapées ou convalescentes, et leur tiennent compagnie. Les soins sont fournis à la résidence du client, où les aides familiaux résident parfois. Ils travaillent pour des agences de soins et de maintien à domicile et des maisons privées, ou ils peuvent être des travailleurs autonomes. Les aides de maintien à domicile accomplissent des travaux ménagers et d'autres tâches domestiques dans des maisons privées et d'autres milieux résidentiels en dehors des établissements.

OBS

4412 : code du système de classification de la Classification nationale des professions.

Spanish

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Record 16 2010-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Customs and Excise
  • Transfer of Personnel
DEF

A border resident that crosses the border every day to work in a neighbouring country.

CONT

Some notable new forms of recent worker mobility include the cross-border commuter, whereby an employee commutes from their home to a place of work in another country...

Key term(s)
  • trans-border commuter

French

Domaine(s)
  • Douanes et accise
  • Mobilité du personnel
DEF

Habitant d'une région frontière qui va travailler chaque jour dans un pays limitrophe.

CONT

Un Hollandais pourra alors travailler pendant la semaine comme frontalier en Suisse et rentrer à la maison pour le week-end.

CONT

Si ces 2 conditions sont réunies [être de nationalité européenne et trouver un emploi sur le sol suisse], une autorisation de travail est délivrée automatiquement au travailleur frontalier.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aduana e impuestos internos
  • Traslado del personal
CONT

[En la Unión Europea] la definición comunitaria de trabajador fronterizo es "todo trabajador que desarrolle su trabajo en el territorio de un Estado Miembro y resida en otro Estado Miembro al que regresa en principio cada día o como mínimo una vez por semana".

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Record 17 2010-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Recreation
CONT

According to Super's(1984) life-stage theory of career development, people play a variety of roles(child, student, worker, spouse... "leisurite", annuitant, patient) as they mature and they play them in a variety of theatres(home, community, school, workplace, retirement community). A person's occupational role may change several times during a lifetime... Typically, people play several roles simultaneously, in several theatres....

OBS

-ite: suffix forming nouns ... a person associated with, as in laborite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des loisirs
OBS

Équivalent proposé par le Service de linguistique de Radio-Canada. Formé sur le modèle de curiste, excursionniste, touriste.

Spanish

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Record 18 2005-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paramedical Staff
  • Social Services and Social Work
CONT

Home support workers most frequently reported that they assisted in homemaking, personal attendant care and respite care. ... HSWs reported that they provided services in personal hygiene and meal preparation more frequently than the professional nursing groups.

OBS

Home support workers are considered within the category of formal caregivers.

OBS

home support worker : In the National Occupational Classification(NOC), an official occupational title in Group 6471-Visiting Homemakers, Housekeepers and Related Occupations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Personnel para-médical
  • Services sociaux et travail social
OBS

Dans la Classification nationale des professions (CNP), titre de profession officiel dans le Groupe 6471 - Aides ménagers/aides ménagères et travailleurs/travailleuses exerçant une profession connexe.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Personal paramédico
  • Servicios sociales y trabajo social
CONT

Servicio de Ayuda a Domicilio (SAD). Conjunto de servicios sanitarios, personales y domésticos prestados en el domicilio de la persona para facilitar su vida en el mismo y evitar internamientos. [...] [Los prestan] auxiliares de ayuda a domicilio y [...] personal de enfermería, trabajo social, voluntarios, etc.

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Record 19 2004-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
OBS

Terminology used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
OBS

Terminologie employée par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

Spanish

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Record 20 2003-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing
CONT

An outworker works at or from his or her home rather than in an office or factory. They are usually paid according to how much they produce rather than the number of hours spent working and usually the income earned for a given amount of work is much less than what they would earn for the same work in an office or factory. Outworkers perform such work as sewing garment, stuffing envelopes and distributing leaflets.

Key term(s)
  • offsite worker

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commercialisation
DEF

Travailleur qui exécute chez lui, soit seul, soit avec son conjoint, ses enfants à charge ou un auxiliaire, le travail confié par un donneur d'ouvrage lui fournissant les matières premières moyennant une rémunération généralement forfaitaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercialización
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Record 21 1994-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Social Problems
CONT

The child protection worker traditionally has addressed the problem of child sexual abuse... by taking the child into custody and placing him or her in a "place of safety" such as a foster home...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la famille
  • Problèmes sociaux

Spanish

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Record 22 1991-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Forms
OBS

Form CPT-1B, Revenue Canada Taxation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de formulaires administratifs

Spanish

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