There are provincial and federal programs that can help you hire students for summer or internship positions. Brief descriptions can be found below, along with phone numbers or links to web sites that can give you further information on these subsidies.

Employment Integration Program for Immigrants & Visible Minorities (PRIIME)

Employers could receive financial assistance, when hiring recent immigrants and visible minorities entering the Quebec labour market, covering:

• a portion of wages (excluding social benefits) for a maximum of 30 weeks, to enable the employee to gain work experience;
• the wages paid to the person responsible for accompanying the employee for the first 13 weeks, up to a maximum of 60 hours;
• the creation of specific activities or the adaptation of his or her human resource management tools;
• expenditures incurred directly to train the employee and adapt their skills to the North American workplace, up to a maximum of 60 hours of training.

For more information, visit PRIIME - For Employers (French only) or PRIIME - For Individual Job-Seekers.

Federal Government: Summer Career Placements

Summer Career Placements (a component of the Government of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy) is a wage subsidy program that enables public, private and not-for-profit employers to create career-related summer jobs for student participants.

For information, visit Canada Summer Jobs

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

NSERC provides Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) in Industry (approximately $4500 for a maximum of 16 weeks) to enable students to work at a research and development facility of an eligible organization in Canada. Organizations wishing to participate must meet NSERC's eligibility criteria.

For information, visit NSERC

YES (Youth Employment Service) Montreal: Internship Program

With funding from Service Canada, YES Montreal’s Internship Program aims to give valuable work experience through an internship.
Employers can benefit through partial wage subsidies and more:

• YES will reimburse the employer 40% of the hourly wages paid, to a maximum of $5.60 per hour worked
• The remaining wages as well as 100% eligible benefits will be paid by the participating employers
• The internships will end by the end of March
• All internships will be full time positions of 35 hours per week as negotiated at the time of contract signing
• All positions must add to the value of the organization and be career related
• Internships must be related to the interns field of study and contribute directly to their professional development

For more information, visit YES Internship Program

Small Business Internship Program (SBIP)

The Small Business Internship Program is a funding opportunity through Industry Canada, providing small and medium-sized businesses (< 500 employees) financial support to hire a post-secondary student intern to assist them in their adoption of e-business strategies and/or information and communications technologies (ICT) in order to increase their productivity and competitiveness.

For more information, visit Small Business Internship Program (SBIP)

Congé fiscal pour chercheurs étrangers / Tax holiday for foreign researchers

This tax measure facilitates the recruitment of researchers from abroad to work on your innovation project. To qualify for this tax holiday, whose maximum duration is 60 consecutive months and which applies to the salary paid to the foreign researcher, you must:

• Have a business operating in Quebec
• Do scientific research and experimental development
• Have signed an employment contract with a foreign researcher with a graduate degree recognized by a Quebec university

For more information, visit Congé fiscal pour chercheurs étrangers (French only)