Canadian Government Offers Supply Chain Subsidy

Additional Funds Secured for Supply Chain Wage-Subsidy Program

August 17, 2010, Mississauga, Ontario – The Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council is pleased to announce that it recently received increased funding for its Career Focus wage-subsidy program. As a result, the Council will expand the program to help more employers hire new employees in supply chain positions. Applications to the program will be assessed on a first-come, first-served basis.

Under the program, employers who meet the eligibility criteria established by the Government of Canada will receive a subsidy of up to one third of a new employee's total wages, to a maximum of $12,750 per employee. Employers are required to guarantee a minimum of four months employment for a new or recent graduate, who must work for at least 30 hours a week.

Here’s what employers are saying about the program:

"The support of the Career Focus Program gave us the extra confidence needed to hire someone without much experience in our industry. Our new team member has shown a great aptitude and some good early success. It would have been a little more difficult to make the hiring decision, and we may have held off adding a new person, if we did not have the help of the Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council. We are very happy with the program and, if it continues, we may be in touch and attempt a more-aggressive growth strategy, which would in turn get more young and talented people some practical experience in the logistics field." - Dean Duffin - Branch Director, FLS Transportation Services, Calgary, Alberta

For more details on the Council’s Career Focus Program, visit www.supplychaincanada.org/en/career-focus.

The Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council is an all-stakeholder, not-for-profit organization responsible for the human resources strategy for the supply chain sector in Canada. The CSCSC is funded by the Government of Canada’s Sector Council Program.