Electricity Human Resources Canada (EHRC) – Empowering Futures Program
Description:
The Empowering Futures Program is Canada’s Student Work Placement Program for the electricity industry. Aimed at preparing students for the future of work, the program will create new work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities in electricity by providing subsidies of up to $7,000 per student position to the employers who create these new opportunities.
Comments on Funding:
Funding is a wage subsidy that covers the cost of a co-op student’s salary by up to 70% to a maximum of $7,000.
Eligibility:
Employer eligibility criteria:
Student eligibility criteria:
Applications Steps:
Applicants must apply via the Funding For Futures Platform. The platform will take users through a step-by-step application and documentation process in an interactive, web-based environment when applying, monitoring, and managing their wage subsidy application.
Documentation Needed:
The company must submit:
- the Employer Eligibility Assessment (should include brief company description, student participant’s job title, participant’s job description, participant’s salary, hours and start/end dates);
- the Empowering Futures contract;
- the application for direct deposit (includes organization name, name of financial institution, branch address);
- image of blank void cheque or equivalent information;
- a Learning Plan as close to the start of the work placement as possible.
Other Things to Note:
Post-Secondary institutions are no longer eligible to receive funding.

Program Contact:
When It Ends:
Ongoing
Deadline:
Rolling deadline