Canada Recovery Hiring Program (“CRHP”)

Budget 2021 is encouraging Canadian Controlled Private Companies to hire back their employees by launching a new Canada Recovery Hiring Program that will run between June 6 and November 20, 2021. If passed into law, CRHP will be available for six qualifying periods, the first four of which align with CEWS periods 17-20. The government is using the CEWS period numbers to identify qualifying periods under the CRHP to avoid confusion (or cause it?). Eligible employers can claim either the CRHP or the CEWS for any of periods 17-20, not both.

Similar to CEWS, a revenue decline must be shown for each of the qualifying periods. The amount of subsidy available is the Hiring Subsidy Rate (below) x the Incremental Remuneration paid by an employer during a qualifying period. Incremental Remuneration is the difference paid by an employer between the qualifying period’s remuneration and the baseline period’s remuneration calculated under the General Approach or the Alternative Approach. If the ‘alternative approach’ was chosen to calculate CEWS, it must also be used to calculate CRHP.

Eligible employers must have had an active payroll number as of March 15, 2020, and the filing deadline to make a claim is 180 days after the end of the qualifying period.

If the ‘alternative approach’ was chosen by the employer to calculate CEWS, it must also be used to calculate CRHP. For complete details about the CRHP, please visit the government’s backgrounder here, or reach out to our team today!