Sentences with phrase «job grant»

The new Canada Job Grant program will see federal and provincial governments together pick up two - thirds of training costs of up to $ 15,000 per worker.

The first federal proposal, immediately rejected, offered $ 300 million to provinces for a Canada Job Grant program that would train workers for new jobs, to the tune of $ 5,000 per employee — and ask that provinces and employers match those funds.

Under the new Canada Job Grant scheme, Ottawa would pay up to $ 5,000 for every employee being trained, requiring matching funds from the employer and the province, for up to $ 15,000 per person.

Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development, responds to media questions during a Canada Job Grant press conference in Winnipeg, Wednesday, April 23, 2014.

If your business is conducting third - party training for Canadian employees, up to 66 % of costs may be recovered through Canada Job Grant funding.

«They're planning on funding this Canada Job Grant on the backs of our most vulnerable workers,» said Duguid, adding that the program would leave Ontario on the hook for $ 232 million.

OTTAWA — The federal government's Canada Job Grant proposals are in trouble, officials and opposition critics are warning on the eve of Jason Kenney's meeting with his provincial and territorial counterparts.

The Canada Job Grant offers up to $ 10,000 per employee trained and will offset most costs related to the trainer and training program delivery.

«You feel it's different; it's not just numbers on a piece of paper,» said Cuomo before handing out $ 715 million in job grants to 10 regions around the state.

Full - Time Temporary Job Grants Pass, OR, Hines, OR, Klamath Falls, OR, Newport, OR, Roseburg, OR, Salem, OR, Springfield, OR, Vale, OR

Additional statistics from Hays Canada's What People Want 2013 survey: 56 % of the Canadian labour force doesn't know what the federal government's Canada Job Grant program is; of the ones that do 44 % don't believe it's a good solution to the skills shortage issue.

Whether it was military procurement, the proposed Canada Job Grant, or the temporary foreign workers program, the governing blueprint acknowledged no obstacles or hiccups, but only a bright, steady future.

In other words, your job grants you authority, and that authority grants you an audience.

With Wright now gone, Harper has handed the thorny implementation of the Canada Job Grant to Jason Kenney, a loyal follower, but there's little doubt the strategy flowed from the Prime Minster's Office.

Economy on course, long - term infrastructure program in place, Canada Job grant to fund job retraining.

«For the first time, the Canada Job Grant will take skills - training choices out of the hands of government and put them where they belong, in the hands of employers and Canadians who want to work,» Flaherty told the House of Commons.

To address this job creation gap, our Government is implementing the Canada Job Grant.

Arguably the boldest move Flaherty announced is his new Canada Job Grant.

Yet he also said his plan «takes action» with three major thrusts — introducing a jobs grant that he boasted will «transform the way we provide skills training,» mapping out an infrastructure program that he touted as «the largest and longest» in the country's history, and a stitching together a new strategy for boosting business innovation.

Here the Liberal leader had simply refused to acknowledge one important element of the Canada Job Grant: the basic notion's ability to cheer people up.

But that will still leave to be questioned the small matter of the $ 2.5 million already spent to promote the Canada Job Grant, an ad buy that seems to stretch the definition of advance warning — a bit like the film industry deciding to promote movies that have not yet been financed or cast.

Notions (Jim Flaherty would separately describe the Job Grant today as a «concept «-RRB- are, or at least can be, rather great things.

Ten months ago, the Canada Job Grant was «a bold, new initiative» that «would transform the way Canadians receive training.»

Justin Trudeau wondered if the Prime Minister might stand now and — presumably having engaged in some deep reflection over the Christmas break --» abandon» the Canada Job Grant, but Mr. Harper had apparently not been so moved.

The Canada Job Grant was the government's signature economic policy of the last budget.

™ And a lovely notion the Canada Job Grant is, everyone somehow coming together to make the world somehow better.

«Mr. Speaker, I noted that the Canada Job Grant was in fact very well received by those in the marketplace,» Mr. Harper enthused, «by people who want to upgrade their skills, want to receive more training, want to gain jobs and, by pluralism, want to create jobs.»

Kenney and the provinces have spent weeks counter-proposing each others» ideas for the Canada Job Grant, the federal government's proposed replacement for skills training transfer payments it hands to provinces each year.

Ontario's minister of training, colleges and universities, Brad Duguid, says the united provinces now accept the government's firm offer of $ 300 million a year for the job grant.

As proposed in the budget, the Canada Job Grant would provide up to $ 15,000 to any business offering a training program.

He said those suggestions include allowing the provinces to draw on another federal fund, the Labour Market Development Agreement, to pay for the program, and to allow small businesses to band together to make it «administratively easier for them» to participate in the Canada Job Grant.

Duguid, however, said he's seen scant evidence from Ottawa so far that it's open to rethinking the job grant program.

While the trailer for the film did in fact hint at something more - is the cost and the grind of the collegiate system worth the job it grants you afterwards that is largely utilized to pay back those student loans?

As the parent of a 21 - year old about to graduate from university, it's hard not to be supportive of the new Canada Job Grant.

The budget proposes renegotiating Ottawa's agreement with provincial governments on how to spend money for training by creating a job grant to better match unemployed workers to skills training as well as support for apprenticeships.