{"id":85950,"date":"2017-01-19T21:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T02:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85950"},"modified":"2017-01-19T21:47:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T02:47:15","slug":"government-of-canada-urges-employers-to-take-advantage-of-canada-summer-jobs-funding-to-hire-students-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/19\/government-of-canada-urges-employers-to-take-advantage-of-canada-summer-jobs-funding-to-hire-students-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Government of Canada urges employers to take advantage of Canada Summer Jobs funding to hire students this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Government of Canada urges employers to take advantage of Canada Summer Jobs funding to hire students this summer (Photo: Harshil Shah\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Get money to hire summer students: Deadline to apply for Canada Summer Jobs funding extended to February 3<\/p>\n

Small businesses and organizations wanting to hire summer students this year now have until February 3, to submit their applications for support from the Canada Summer Jobs program.<\/p>\n

The Canada Summer Jobs program makes it easier to hire students during the summer by providing up to 50 percent of the minimum hourly wage for small businesses and public sector employers, and up to 100 percent for not-for-profits, plus employment-related costs. Students can start working as early as April.<\/p>\n

\u201cI invite all employers who haven\u2019t yet done so to apply today to receive support to hire students this summer. This is a tremendous opportunity to offer work experience to energetic, enthusiastic students, and to keep our economy growing,\u201d said the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Canada\u2019s newly appointed minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour.<\/p>\n

Canada Summer Jobs creates thousands of summer work opportunities every year for students age 15 to 30.<\/p>\n

The program focuses on local and national priorities, including:<\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 creating new jobs to make small businesses more innovative, competitive and successful;<\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 welcoming and settling immigrants (including Syrian refugees) in Canada;<\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 hiring Indigenous people;<\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 supporting opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics sectors;<\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 increasing opportunities in information and communications technology sectors; and<\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 celebrating Canada\u2019s 150th anniversary of Confederation.<\/p>\n

Employers looking to hire a student have until February 3, to submit their application.<\/p>\n

For more information and to apply, visit Canada.ca\/Canada-summer-jobs<https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/employment-social-development\/services\/funding\/youth-summer-job.html?utm_source=news&utm_medium=news_release&utm_campaign=csj16-17> or visit a Service Canada Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get money to hire summer students: Deadline to apply for Canada Summer Jobs funding extended to February 3 Small businesses …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,604,16],"tags":[10318],"class_list":["post-85950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-education","category-news","tag-canada-summer-jobs","mauthors-jean-bruno-villeneuve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}