Deadline: 25-Jan-22
The Government of Canada has launched a funding call for the 2022 Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) Program to ensure that all CSJ funded job opportunities take place in a safe, inclusive, and healthy work environment free from harassment and discrimination.
Objectives
CSJ is a program under the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy, which aims to provide flexible and holistic services to help all young Canadians develop the skills and gain paid work experience to successfully transition into the labour market.
The CSJ program objectives align with the redesigned Youth Employment and Skills Strategy and are as follows:
- provide quality work experiences for youth
- respond to national and local priorities to improve access to the labour market for youth who face unique barriers
- provide opportunities for youth to develop and improve their skills
The program provides wage subsidies to employers from not-for-profit organizations, the public sector, and private sector organizations with 50 or fewer full-time employees, to create quality summer work experiences for young people aged 15 to 30 years.
Canada Summer Jobs 2022 – What’s new?
The Government has committed to create 100,000 CSJ jobs for youth in 2022 to help ensure that the program remains responsive to the employment needs of youth and employers. For 2022, CSJ is returning to its regular parameters and will offer quality jobs over the summer months. The jobs will need to end by September 3, 2022. Jobs will need to be full time with a minimum of 30 hours a week and a duration of at least 6 weeks.
In the context of COVID-19, employers are responsible for ensuring health and safety measures are in place and are in accordance with municipal, provincial and federal public health guidance.
What is a quality job placement?
Through the Canada Summer Jobs program, the Government of Canada provides employers with wage subsidies to create quality job placements for youth in safe, inclusive and healthy work environments free of harassment and discrimination.
Your application should demonstrate the quality of your proposed job placement(s) through:
- Youth investment – by paying youth above the minimum wage in your province or territory, or by committing to retain the youth as an employee beyond the period of the CSJ Agreement.
- Supervision – by demonstrating how you will support the youth during their work placement through observing, evaluating, and providing feedback on job performance.
- Mentoring – by demonstrating how your guidance will support the professional and career-development of the youth.
- Skills development – by providing opportunities for youth to develop the skills needed for employment.
- Health and safety practices – by demonstrating that you have implemented measures to ensure that your work environment is safe.
In the current context of COVID-19, employers are responsible for staying informed of provincial guidance on essential services and municipal, provincial and federal public health information, and following all necessary local health guidance.
Work environment policies and practices – by demonstrating that you have implemented measures to provide a work environment free of harassment and discrimination, including non-discriminatory hiring practices.
Eligibility Criteria
- Not-for-profit employers: Entities under the “not-for-profit” category are established for purposes other than financial gain for their members. This category includes:
- Community, charitable or voluntary organizations, including faith-based organizations (for example, churches, synagogues, temples, mosques);
- Associations of workers or employers as well as professional and industrial organizations;
- Indigenous not-for-profit organizations;
- Non-governmental organizations;
- Unions;
- Sector councils; and,
- Not-for-profit Band Councils
- Public sector employers: Public sector employers include public health and public educational institutions, municipal governments, and other organizations under public ownership. Among others, this category includes:
- Public community colleges and vocational schools;
- Public health, including: public hospitals, nursing homes, senior citizen homes, rehabilitation homes, and public libraries;
- Public degree-granting universities and colleges;
- Municipal governments and agencies, including regional legislative bodies and departments;
- School boards and elementary and secondary institutions; and,
- Territorial governments.
- Private sector employers: Private sector entities are established in order to generate a profit or to provide an economic advantage to their proprietors, members or shareholders. Private sector employers must have 50 or fewer full-time employees at the time of application across Canada to be eligible for CSJ funding. Full-time employees are those working 30 hours or more per week. This category includes:
- Bodies, incorporated or unincorporated, including partnerships and sole proprietorships;
- Financial institutions;
- Business, incorporated or unincorporated bodies, which include:
- federal Crown corporations operating in a competitive environment and not ordinarily dependent on appropriations for operating purposes as indicated in Schedule III, Part II of the Financial Administration Act;
- provincial and territorial Crown corporations recognized as operating in a competitive environment and not ordinarily dependent on appropriations for operating purposes;
- private health and educational institutions; and,
- independent owners of franchises (franchise operators are eligible if there are 50 or fewer full-time employees working full-time in the franchise owner’s operations across Canada, regardless of the number of business numbers involved);
- Indian Band corporations;
- Private Band Councils; and,
- Private universities or colleges.
NOTE: An organization must be registered with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to receive funding. The organization must have a CRA payroll deductions program account (RP) prior to hiring youth through the CSJ program.
For more information, visit https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/funding/canada-summer-jobs.html