Employment Ontario Learn about the various services available to employers in Ontario from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. Inludes access to:
Targeted Wage Subsidies / Apprenticeship Credit Programs / Job Connect / Job Creation Partnerships
Canada Summer Jobs This Initiative provides career-related work experience to students through the provision of wage subsidies to public, private and not-for-profit employers to create summer employment opportunities for students from 15 to 30 years of age (inclusively).
Graduate Transitions Tax Credit A refundable tax credit to encourage businesses to provide work opportunities to unemployed post-secondary graduates.
Co-operative Education Tax Credit To help create employment opportunities by providing employers with a refundable tax credit for hiring post-secondary education students.
Hiring An Apprentice For Your Workplace This website is designed to assist employers who want to introduce an apprenticeship program into their workplace. It provides information on the supports available to you as well as the commitment you need to make to potential apprentices.
The Apprenticeship Network is a group of like-minded individuals and groups working collaboratively to promote apprenticeship as a first-choice option and to provide apprenticeship information to employers, Youth, and Job seekers in the Elgin, Middlesex and Oxford county region.
“Make it Right” Employer Incentives The Holmes Foundation will award two Employer Incentives annually, each valued at $3,000.00. The Holmes Foundation will make a $3,000 contribution towards the salary of a first year apprentice hired by an employer who is working in residential renovation or construction and who is judged by The Holmes Foundation to demonstrate a commitment to quality and integrity in residential renovation or construction. The employer must be nominated by a current or former employee and must have recently hired, or be intending to hire, an apprentice for the first time.
Skills Link-Individual Work Experience Program Designed to support unemployed your under the age of 30 with limited work experience related to their employement goal and who are experiencing difficulty making the transition from school to work.
Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) Employer Information Companies like yours are often faced with a shortage of skilled trades persons. Training a student in an apprenticeable occupation opens the door to a better future for our youth and helps maintain a skilled work force in Ontario.
Youth Internship Financial assistance for small and medium enterprises with 500 employees of less who want to hire science/technology/business/ liberal arts graduates.
Passport To Prosperity Passport to Prosperity is a province-wide campaign to increase employer awareness of and participation in work opportunity experiences for high school students. The campaign is an employer-led recruitment effort to help students explore career options and develop workplace skills and experience. Local Link: Passport to Prosperity
Opportunities Fund Wage Subsidy Program Designed to support any unemployed Canadian who self identifies as having a disability or impairment to becoming employed or re-employed.
Foreign Workers Programs The mission of Foreign Worker Program is to assist Canadian employers to meet their human resource needs, by facilitating the entry of skilled foreign workers, while ensuring the development of a strong domestic labour market.
Rural Economic Development (RED) Program Grants to business projects which develop economies through the creation of long term jobs, alliances, skill training, new technology and innovation.