Empowering Futures

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).