On May 19, 2021, the Government of Alberta announced the new Alberta Jobs Program aimed at helping private and not-for-profit businesses support for hiring unemployed or underemployed Albertans.
Highlights:
- Employers can claim up to 25% of an employee’s salary over 52-weeks up to $25,000 total per employee.
- Employers who hire people with disabilities receive a grant 1.5 x higher than other hires, or 37.5% of their salary up to $37,500/employee.
- Employers can hire up to 20-employees per intake. That’s up to $1M in potential assistance from the government of Alberta to help with hiring.
- The first intake will run May 20 up to August 31, 2021.
- The second intake will run Sept 15 – Dec 31, 2021.
- Third intake to be announced at a later date.
- Can be used to cover salary OR training costs.
- New hire must reside and work in Alberta and cannot have worked for the employer in the last 90-days.
- Can be used for new and vacant positions.
NOTE: Employers cannot make the claim where the new hire leaves their current full-time position to move on to another full-time job. In other words, eligible employees must be unemployed, or underemployed (part-time) when they are hired by the new employer. Also, owner-managers and self-employed individuals are not eligible for the program, and the program is NOT available for contractors.
Applications started last week, on May 20, 2021, at http://www.alberta.ca/jobsnow.
Here’s a link to the Government’s announcement . Full details of the program can be found here.
If you’d like to discuss how the program impacts your business, please don’t hesitate to reach out to one of our experts today.
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