Job Creation Partnerships

Ontario Job Creation Partnerships is an employment program that provides work experience to unemployed job seekers within projects that benefit the community or local economy. At the end of their participation, participants in the program will have recent work experience and additional skills to add to their résumés, increasing their chances of successfully finding long-term employment.

Ontario Self Employment Benefit

The Ontario Self-Employment Benefit provides unemployed people who are or have recently been eligible for Employment Insurance with income and entrepreneurial support while they develop and start their business.

Second Career Strategy

The Second Career Strategy will help recently laid-off workers who require long-term skills training to find work in high-skill occupations that are in demand in the local labour market.

The strategy provides financial assistance based on individual needs to help people with some of the costs associated with acquiring training, including tuition and books.

Summer Jobs Service (SJS)   (Printable brochure)

Summer Jobs Service (SJS) is the summer program for students from the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and is available from April to September.  Some of the highlights of SJS are:

• provides employers with a $2.00 per hour wage subsidy

• applicable to youth ages 15 - 30 years, who are planning to return to school

• the employment period may be up to 16 weeks

• youth working part-time (24 hrs/wk or less) are eligible, providing their work hours are increased to 35 hrs/wk or more.