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Ontario Job Grant (COJG) │Government of Ontario

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Value

Up to a maximum of $10,000 per trainee.

Description

The Ontario Job Grant (OJG) provides funding to help businesses train their employees and update their skills. This helps employers ensure their workforce has the right skills to adapt to a changing economy.

Funding for the Ontario Job Grant is provided in part by the Government of Canada through the Canada–Ontario Labour Market Development Agreement

The grant lets employers choose who to train, and what skills to focus on to address their needs. Employers can use the grant to train:

  • existing employees to upgrade their skills
  • new hires, whether currently employed elsewhere or previously unemployed (a new hire is a trainee with an identified job opportunity within the employer’s workforce that has been provided with an offer of employment prior to training)

Eligible Applicants

The Canada-Ontario Job Grant (COJG) is open to:

  • individual private and non-profit sector employers
  • First Nations (eligible First Nations can be found in the program guidelines)
  • Organizations acting on behalf of employers (such as industry associations and union training halls)

Trainees must be either Canadian citizens, permanent residents or protected persons living in Ontario and meet the following below requirements:

  • Employed individuals must be identified by their employer.
  • Unemployed individuals must also be sponsored by an employer, demonstrated through a permanent or conditional offer of employment.
  • An individual must not be participating in full-time training or education or any other government training intervention that offers funding support for same tuition, books or other training related costs (for example, Better Jobs Ontario).

Eligible Expenses

Grant details

The Ontario Job Grant supports eligible training costs up to a maximum of $10,000 per trainee, with additional flexibility for small employers.

Employers with 100 or more employees

For employers with 100 or more employees, the government will cover half of the training costs, and the employer needs to contribute the other half, regardless of whether employees were previously unemployed.

Employers with fewer than 100 employees

Employers with under 100 employees are required to pay at least one-sixth of the training costs of each trainee. If the employer is training new hires who were previously unemployed, they are eligible for up to $15,000 per trainee and not required to make a minimum contribution to training costs funded through the program. This means an employer may be eligible for 100% funding.

Employers must not use trainees to displace existing staff or replace staff who are on lay-off

Accepting applications

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development is currently accepting applications from individual employers if they involve training 25 or fewer participants.

Deadline Date

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development is currently accepting applications from individual employers if they involve training 25 or fewer participants.

Contact

Contact Name: Employment Ontario Contact Centre

Phone Number: 1-800-387-5656 (toll-free)

E-mail Address: EmploymentHotlineInquiries@ontario.ca

Website: https://www.ontario.ca/page/canada-ontario-job-grant-cojg

Industry:

Employment, Indigenous, Non-Profit

Location:

Ontario

Tags:

Businesses, Training

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