KW Insights | $250m Jobs Victoria Fund Now Open
Is your business looking to hire and grow in 2021?
The Jobs Victoria Fund is aimed at assisting at least 10,000 people to find work in Victorian businesses by providing $250 million in wage subsidies. The subsidies of up to $20,000 are available for eligible employers who hire eligible jobseekers, to help meet the costs of taking on new employees for the first 12 months of their employment.
You can apply for a wage subsidy for up to 20 full time equivalent employees, across the following priority groups:
- People aged over 45
- People aged under 25
- Long term unemployed (six months or more)
- Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
- Newly arrived migrants from non-English speaking background
- People with a disability
- People seeking asylum
- Veterans
- People previously employed under the Working for Victoria initiative
If you are a Victorian employer and have hired employees from the above priority groups, you may be eligible to apply to the fund.
To know more, please contact us or visit https://jobs.vic.gov.au/about-jobs-victoria/our-programs/jobs-victoria-fund