Human Resources Support
During COVID-19
BC Innovator Skills Initiative (ISI) Grant Program
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Your business can receive up to $10,000 a year to #hireaBCstudent in a tech role. The ISI Grant program provides flexibility regarding start times, end dates, and payouts (so long as they meet the $1000 minimum). Lower payouts will be considered as well, depending on circumstances. With this grant, you may hire a student who is working from home / remotely. You DO NOT need to be a tech company to take part in the program - so long as you are hiring for a tech role. A tech company can hire for a business OR tech role.
[ Program, Eligibility and Application ] [ Program Guidelines ] |
Youth Employment & Skills Program (YESP)
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Government of Canada enhances Youth Employment and Skills Program to help create new positions for youth in the agriculture sector.
This additional funding will help the agriculture industry attract Canadian youth, ages 15 to 30, to their organizations to assist with labour shortages brought on by the pandemic. This program aims to provide youth, and particularly youth facing barriers to employment, with job experience in agriculture that will provide career-related work experience. The YESP will provide agriculture employers up to 50 per cent of the cost of hiring a Canadian youth up to $14,000. Indigenous applicants and those applicants hiring a youth facing barriers are eligible for funding of up to 80 per cent of their costs. Eligible applicants include producers, agri-businesses, industry associations, provincial and territorial governments, Indigenous organizations and research facilities. Employers may apply for this funding retroactive to April 1, 2020, with projects to be completed by March 31, 2021. Application forms are available through the Youth Employment and Skills Program, or to get more information, please contact aafc.yesp-pecj.aac@canada.ca, or call: 1-866-452-5558. |
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