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What is a wage subsidy?

The wage subsidy is a form of financial support for your employer for adapting the work and workplace to meet your needs. The wage subsidy can be offered:

• to improve your skills and work capacity to make it easier for you to find a job or begin to study. The subsidy is called a wage subsidy for development while employed.
• to improve your possibilities of finding and keeping a suitable job in terms of your skills and abilities. This subsidy is called a wage subsidy for employment.
• if you need long-term support to find and keep a job. This subsidy is called a wage subsidy for job security.

You can work for both private and public employers. You can have permanent or temporary employment and you can work either full-time or part-time.

An initial decision on wage subsidy covers a maximum of one year. If you need work adaptation for longer, we can extend the decision. In the long run, the goal is that your employment will be converted to employment without financial support for the employer.

Who is eligible for a wage subsidy?

You can get a job with a wage subsidy if you are a job seeker with a disability that reduces your ability to work. You need to be registered as a job seeker with us.

How it works

• We make an assessment based on your current situation and your circumstances before we take a decision about a wage subsidy.
• Together with you and your employer, we will explore the need for adaptation and support related to the relevant job, and the conditions of the workplace. We will draw up a document for decision-making that includes modifications and support.
• Documentation of the inquiry describes how to improve your work ability so that the wage subsidy is unnecessary in the long term. Skills development, guidance, and assistive devices are examples of things that might be included.
• We will contact you a few months after the job begins to follow up on how things have gone for you and for your employer.
  

Salary

You have the right to a salary and other employment benefits from your employer according to the collective agreement in the industry. If there is no collective agreement, salary and other benefits must be equal in important respects to the collective agreement.