Empowering Futures

Providing financial incentives of up to $7k to employers who create new Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunities for students and first-year apprentices.

Electricity Human Resources Canada

Overview of the Empowering Futures program:

Electricity Human Resources Canada’s (EHRC) Empowering Futures Program is Canada’s student and first-year apprentice work placement initiative for the electricity industry, providing financial incentives of up to $7,000 to employers who create new Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunities.

Benefits of the Empowering Futures program:

Subsidies of up to $7,000 per student position to the employers who create these new opportunities.

Eligibility criteria of the Empowering Futures program:

Participants are eligible if they meet the following criteria:
They are registered as a full-time or part-time student in a post-secondary institution.
They are a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person with refugee protection in Canada.
They are legally able to work in Canada according to the laws and regulations of the province or territory where they live.
Employer organizations are eligible if they meet the following criteria:
Firms whose primary activity is the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity.
Sector support including renewables, in any of the following areas: R & D, business development, energy efficiency.
Firms engaged in the manufacturing of equipment and the provision of services necessary for generation, transmission, or distribution.
Employment Eligibility
Employment is eligible if it meets the following criteria:
The wages for this position must not be funded by another federally funded program.
The company must provide a full or part-time work opportunity for a student in post-secondary education, enrolled in a science, technology, engineering, mathematics, arts, or business program.
The company must not recruit and retain friends or family members as participants to the co-op wage subsidy program, or have a sufficient nepotism policy in place.
The placements must be meaningful work-integrated learning opportunities for the students. As such, they should be generally at least 12 weeks long (exceptions can be discussed).