Subsidy Programs for Employers

Young Canada Works is a program of the Department of Canadian Heritage that provides wage subsidies to help secondary and post-secondary students, college and university graduates gain access to hands-on work experience through summers jobs or internships.

Who's Eligible: Secondary students, post-secondary students and graduates

Apply for Summer Jobs and Internships!

Contact: 1-800-935-5555

This program provides employers with a subsidy of wages to hire workers who face barriers to employment.

Who's Eligible: Businesses, Organizations, Individuals, Public Health & Educational Institutions, Municipal Governments, Band/Tribal Councils, provincial/territorial government departments and agencies if specified in a federal-provincial/territorial agreement or Memorandum of Understanding, or specifically approved by the HRSDC

Website: Canada Business - Service for Entrepreneurs 

The program helps employers/sponsors by providing them with wage subsidies if they hire secondary and post-secondary students for the summer in a career-related job. There are special provisions for employers who hire students with disabilities.

Who's Eligible: Public-sector employers and small private-sector employers with 50 or fewer employees are eligible for up to 50% of the provincial/territorial minimum hourly wage. Not-for-profit employers are eligible for up to 100% of the provincial/territorial minimum hourly wage and mandatory employment related costs.

Website: Canada Business - Services for Entrepreneurs

Contact: 1-800-935-5555

Through this program, employers/sponsors may hire recent graduates and receive a wage subsidy of up to a third of the participant's salary ($15,000 maximum). Note: Employers/grads must apply to this program as it is a project based program

Who's Eligible: Businesses, organizations (including not-for-profit, professional, employer and labour associations), public health and educational institutions, band/tribal councils, Aboriginal organizations and municipal governments.

Website: Canada Business - Services for Entrepreneurs

Contact: 1-800-935-5555

Same as above but with different criteria and $ amounts. See website for details.

Website: Sectoral Career Focus Program 

This program helps employers hire recent graduates in science and engineering by partially funding salaries. Likewise, the program provides relevant and meaningful work experience to these graduates

Website: Canada Business - Services for Entrepreneurs

Contact: 613-996-6199
STIP/PSST@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca 

The Apprenticeship Job Creation Tax Credit (AJCTC) is a non-refundable tax credit equal to 10% of the eligible salaries and wages payable to eligible apprentices in respect of employment after May 1, 2006.

Who's Eligible: An "eligible apprentice" is someone who is working in a prescribed trade in the first two years of their apprenticeship contract. This contract must be registered with a federal, provincial or territorial government under an apprenticeship program designed to certify or license individuals in the trade. or Any business that hires an "eligible apprentice".

Website: Canada Revenue Agency - Apprenticeships

Contact: 1-800-959-7775

The Electricity Sector Council is offering companies a subsidy of up to $10,000.00 for each new graduate technician, technologist and engineer you hire.

To qualify for the subsidy, host companies/employers must:

• Be a small to medium business (under 2,300 employees)
• Guarantee a minimum of 30 hours of work per week in a full-time position for a minimum of 4 months
• Provide $2 in wages for every $1 of wage subsidy received (amaximum of $10,000.00 per candidate available)
• Must have nepotism policy in place
• Develop a formal learning plan (personalized action plan, between an employer and a participant, designed to help set and meet work-related learning objectives)
• Have completed the wage subsidy application and, have the employer wage subsidy contract in place before the candidate starts work

For a recent graduate hire to qualify they must:

• Have graduated from a Canadian or international post secondary institution
• Be between the ages of 15 and 30
• Have graduated as a technician, technologist or engineer
• Be a new hire (not an existing employee) 
• Be a Canadian citizen or have landed immigrant status

This program is supported by the Government of Canada Sector Council Program. 

Electricity Sector Council
info@brightfutures.ca
www.brightfutures.ca

The Apprenticeship Training Tax Credit (ATTC) is a refundable tax credit for corporations and unincorporated businesses employing apprentices in certain skilled trades during the first 48 months of an apprenticeship program.

Website: Ontario Apprenticeship Tax Credit
Contact the Ministry of Revenue, Tax Advisory Services Branch at (905) 837-3814

A $2,000 Employer Signing Bonus initiative encourages employers in the trades to register new apprentices in sectors where there is a high demand for skilled workers. This initiative assists employers to hire and register youth under 25 years of age who have left school and require upgrading to meet the registration standards for apprenticeship training.

Website: Apprenticeship Signing Bonus
Call the toll-free Employment Ontario Hotline at 1-800-387-5656

Job Connect provides employers with hiring solutions. Our services are all free and include: Recruitment assistance; Job posting board; Pre-screening of applicants; Training plan development; Wage subsidies to offset training costs; Cost of tools and/or other items; Ongoing support to you while trainees are on the job.

Website: Job Connect - Centennial College

The Ontario Targeted Wage Subsidy is designed to:

• provide on-the-job work experience to unemployed people who are or have recently been eligible to receive Employment Insurance and are experiencing difficulty in finding work;
• enable employers to hire people who face barriers to employment (people they might not otherwise hire) by offering temporary wage subsidies.

Call the toll-free Employment Ontario hotline at 1-800-387-5656.

This Ontario government program can help students find a summer job. The program provides free job search support and placement services to students. It also provides a $2/hour hiring incentive for employers who hire a student during the summer.

Website: Summer Job Service
Contact: 1-800-935-5555