Deadline: 12-Jan-23
Employment and Social Development Canada is inviting applications for the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) Program with an 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.
Objectives
- The Government of Canada aims to ensure that all CSJ funded job opportunities take place in a safe, inclusive, and healthy work environment free from harassment and discrimination.
- 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
- To support Service Canada in screening and assessing the eligibility and quality of each project, the Application Form collects information from you such as:
- Your organization’s health and safety practices
- Work environment policies
- Supervision and mentoring plans
- Skills development plan
- Other details related to both your organization and the proposed job(s)
Duration: The duration of the CSJ-funded portion of the job must be between 6 and 16 consecutive weeks.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible, youth must:
- Be between 15 and 30 years of age at the beginning of the employment periodFootnote1
- Be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for the duration of the employment, and
- Have a valid Social Insurance Number at the start of employment and be legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations
- 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
- 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
- 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 Canada Summer Jobs (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
- 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
- Private universities or colleges
Ineligible
- Members of the House of Commons and the Senate or members of their immediate family
- Federal Government Departments and Agencies
- Provincial Departments and Agencies
- Organizations that engage in partisan political activities
For more information, visit Canada Summer Jobs.