The Manitoba authorities is opening functions for the Canada-Manitoba Job Grant for Manitoba companies to obtain funding to coach new and present staff, Financial Improvement, Funding, Commerce and Pure Sources Minister Jamie Moses introduced immediately.

“Our authorities was extraordinarily dissatisfied by the federal authorities’s sudden and unilateral resolution to chop funding for workforce coaching,” mentioned Moses. “On account of the federal resolution, this yr the Canada-Manitoba Job Grant shall be decreased by 70 per cent. We’re persevering with to advocate strongly to the federal authorities, for the restoration of helps for employees. The Canada-Manitoba Job Grant has very efficiently supported Manitoba companies, notably small companies, to coach staff and construct a talented provincial workforce during the last variety of years. Whereas there’s much less funding to go round this yr, we encourage all eligible companies to use.”

The final two annual intakes made $10 million out there to companies by the Canada-Manitoba Job Grant, which is funded by the Labour Market Switch Settlement with the Authorities of Canada. This yr, $3 million is obtainable, the minister famous.

Employers are eligible to obtain as much as $10,000 per worker and as much as $100,000 per coaching challenge. Small employers with 100 or fewer staff can obtain as much as 75 per cent of eligible coaching prices, whereas bigger employers can obtain as much as 50 per cent of coaching prices.

The 2023-24 job grant:

• benefitted 485 corporations and organizations, 411 (85 per cent) of which have been small employers;
• educated 9,615 staff, 763 of whom have been internet new hires; and
• supported coaching initiatives in 19 distinct financial sectors and all areas of the province.

Manitoba companies can apply to obtain workforce coaching assist underneath the Canada-Manitoba Job Grant at www.gov.mb.ca/jec/busdev/financial/cmjg/index.html. The consumption shall be open on July 24.

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