Government wage subsidies help reduce your hiring costs for new employees
Wage subsidies are Government-funded employer incentives to help more people with a disability, injury, or permanent health condition into meaningfulemployment.
How much are wage subsidies and how do they work?
It’s simple!
When you employ a job seeker with a disability, your business can receive up to $10,000 for each eligible employee.
Our Sign for Work Employment Consultant are ready to be your guide for the most suitable wage subsidy for your new employee.
Workplace Modifications
Our Employment Consultants will also discuss and recommend potential workplace modifications which are available to improve your new employee’s access towork and ensure their work productivity.
We can help you and your employee access the Employment Assistance Fund which provides financial assistance for work-related modifications and services foreligible people with disability or health conditions who are looking for work, about to start a job, are self-employed, or who are currently working, as well as toEmployers of eligible employees with disability.
The Employment Assistance Fund is available through JobAccess and may reimburse the cost of work-related modifications and services, including:
- the cost of modifications to the physical work environment and work vehicles
- adaptive equipment for the workplace
- information and communication devices
- Auslan interpreting services
- assistance for co-workers to learn sign language
- specialist services for employees with specific learning disorders and mental health conditions
- disability and deaf awareness training (DAT), and
- mental health awareness training.
Where required, a Workplace Modification Assessment may be undertaken to assess the application for the Employment Assistance Fund.