JobsPlus is a new employer incentive which encourages and rewards employers who offer employment opportunities to jobseekers on the Live Register. This incentive replaces the Revenue Job Assist and Employer Job (PRSI) Exemption Scheme from 1st July 2013. Regular cash payments will be made to qualifying employers to offset wage costs where they employ eligible jobseekers.
JobsPlus is designed to encourage employers and businesses to focus their recruitment efforts on those who have been out of work for long periods. The level of payment is increased for the recruitment of those out of work for more than two years.
The Incentive will provide two levels of payment: a payment of €7,500 over two years to the employer for each person recruited who has been unemployed for more than 12 but less than 24 months and €10,000 over two years to the employer for each person recruited who has been unemployed for more than 24 months. The incentive will be payable monthly in arrears over a two year period.
Eligible employers who recruit full time employees on or after 1ST July 2013 may apply for the incentive, which will initially operate on a pilot basis.
For more information and how to apply for this initiative please go to www.jobsplus.ie .