Wage subsidies and funding

As an employer in Canada who has seen a drop in revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic, you may be eligible for a subsidy to cover part of the wages you pay employees. This subsidy will enable you to re-hire workers, help prevent further job losses, and ease your business back into normal operations.

The STIP program aims to hire and mentor young people in the natural resources sector, particularly in the fields of energy, forestry, mining, earth sciences, and clean technologies.

In order to reflect Canada’s rich diversity, they are looking for employers who are also interested in hiring Youth Furthest From Employment (YFE), Indigenous youth, youth from northern, rural and remote communities, and youth with disabilities.

This program offers:

• Up to 80% wage subsidies for all types of green positions in natural resources, including science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) up to $23,250 per placement and up to $32,000 for Youth Furthest From Employment (YFE).
• To break down barriers, there are no minimum educational requirements.
• Funds are available for training and support. Up to $2000 per placement and up to $5000 for YFE.
• All internships must be new recruits.

Eligible employers:

• Legal entities incorporated or registered in Canada, including for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.
• Indigenous organizations and groups.
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies.

Benefits:

• Wage subsidy of up to $25,000 per intern hired, or up to $32,000 for youth hired who are furthest from employment. 
• Relevant and meaningful work experiences which will grow the talent pool for the Canadian natural resource sectors. 
• Access to highly qualified individuals with the skills to meet the needs of the knowledge economy. 
• Support and innovation for the use of clean technologies and process in the Natural Resource sectors. 

The Science Horizons Internship Program, generously funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada, is a wage subsidy initiative that matches graduates, under the age of 30, with positions across Canada that help combat climate change. To help employers anywhere in Canada hire the talent they need and help increase the supply of highly qualified professionals in environmental sectors, Clean Foundation will subsidize 50% of each intern’s salary, up to a maximum of 80% for youth from employment equity groups*. Each intern is eligible to receive up to a maximum of $25,000. The ideal end goal of the program is for the intern to be hired on full-time or decide to return to academia to further their studies.

Access a wage subsidy to hire a co-op student for up to 12 weeks from College of the North Atlantic to help build your future workforce.

ECO Canada in partnership with the Government of Canada, is pleased to offer wage funding for employers who are hiring youth who are unemployed or underemployed post-secondary graduates looking to enhance and develop digital and soft skills through work experience and training. 

The Environmental Employability Pathways aims to help all youth to navigate through the labour market and to successfully transition into sustained employment.

ECO Canada, in partnership with the government of Canada’s Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS) Program, will work with institutions and employers across Canada to fund work for youth facing barriers, including:

• Young women
• Visible minority youth
• lndigenous youth
• Youth living with a disability
• Official language minority communities (OLMC) and populations

This program aims to help youth facing barriers to obtain work experience, in part-time or full-time roles up to 40-hours per week for positions that have started on or after November 1st, 2021 and can run up until March 15th, 2022.

Placements can be extended however funding is not available after March 15, 2022 (for placements starting on or after April 1st, 2022, wage subsidies are available up to 50% to $15,000. Applications are not yet open for placements starting in April).

ECO Canada, in partnership with the Government of Canada, is pleased to offer wage subsidies to employers looking to hire young professionals. This program offers up to 80% wage subsidies to eligible employers to create environmental jobs with a focus on science, technology, engineering and maths. 

The Cooperative Student Work Integrated Program (SWP) will provide 75% of a wages up to a maximum of $7500 to eligible employers who hire students for jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math (STEAM) or Business.

ECO Canada, in partnership with the Government of Canada, is pleased to offer wage funding for employers looking to onboard young professionals. This program offers eligible employers up to 80% of salary coverage to create meaningful environmental jobs in science, technology, engineering, mathematics within natural resources sectors.

ICTC’s WIL Digital is an innovative Work Integrated Learning program that helps employers grow their businesses by providing financial assistance for hiring post-secondary students.

WIL Digital provides 75% of the student’s salary, up to $7,500.

Provides a wage subsidy for 10-42 weeks up to a maximum of $12 towards the hourly wage rate. A completion bonus of $2,000 for the employer and $1,000 for the employee may be paid if the employee remains employed for 10 weeks after the end of the subsidy.

Mining Industry Human Resources Council will provide 80% of participant’s compensation to a maximum of $25,000 for job-ready youth and maximum of $32,000 for youth furthest from employment (Indigenous youth, youth in northern regions, rural and remote communities, and youth with disabilities). Eligible employers must have an established payroll system, a well-developed training plan, and a process for supervising and mentoring participants.

The organization applying must be Canadian-owned or a Canadian subsidy, and in one of the following
categories:
• Not-for-profit organizations (including voluntary organizations and foundations)
• For-profit organizations
• Indigenous organizations (including band councils, tribal councils and self-government entities)
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments, and their departments, agencies,
institutions and Crown Corporations, where applicable
• Public health, educational and cultural organizations

Stretch a $7,500 investment and expand your R&D potential by collaborating with faculty, college students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows on your company’s complex research challenges.

Double your investment of $30,000 per year by sharing the cost of hiring a postdoctoral fellow to help solve your business challenges.

Access a wage subsidy to hire a co-op student for up to 12 weeks from Memorial University to help build your future workforce.

Project Learning Tree Canada are offering a 50% or 80% wage match, with up to $32,000 CAD in reimbursements, to employers hiring youth aged 15-30 into Green Jobs. They define a Green Job as one that supports nature-based solutions for a more sustainable planet. Green jobs are typically involved in, but not limited to, jobs in the forest sector, parks, conservation, natural resource management, environmental education, sustainable food systems, climate change, carbon sequestration, species maintenance and recovery, water quality and quantity, and more.

Eligibility:

• Green Jobs are considered positions that support nature-based solutions for a more sustainable planet.
• The job must be a new job—the funding must be used to help your organization hire more youth than normal.
• The work experience must last between 2-20 weeks (some exceptions apply).
• Work experience must take place in Canada.

One of techNL’s flagship programs, the techNL-ACOA Internship Program is designed to provide work opportunities for Newfoundland and Labrador university and college graduates while supporting the growth of established technology companies.

Participating companies are required to contribute a minimum of 25% ($11,250) of the graduate’s salary and benefits to the minimum per annum salary of $45,000, excluding all mandatory employer-related costs (MERC). The program provides 75% of the intern’s salary to a maximum of $33,750 and support for other approved training activities.

The fee for participating in the program is $1,800 for techNL members and $2,000 for non-techNL members. This fee covers program administration costs and a mandatory group training component.

Participating companies are required to provide an individual training allowance of $3,000 per intern of which techNL will reimburse 75% ($2,250) of the costs.