Back to Work Employer Incentive Payments — QLD, 2025-26

• Employer must have hired an eligible employee on or before 2025-06-30 • Employer must not be a government entity, including local, state or Commonwealth government, government owned corporations or statutory bodies • Employer must have a good workplace safety and industrial relations record • Employer must demonstrate a genuine commitment to ongoing employment of the employee • Job must be mainly located in an eligible Queensland local government area or region • Job must be ongoing paid full-time with at least 35 hours per week on average, or ongoing paid part-time with at least 20 hours per week on average • For a person with disability, job may be between 8 and 20 hours per week where supported by a workplace assessment and approved benchmark • Job may also be a registered and eligible Queensland full-time or part-time apprenticeship • Eligible employee must be a permanent resident of Australia and principally reside in Queensland • Eligible employee must have been unemployed for the required minimum period before starting employment • Eligible employee must not have worked for the employer in the 52 weeks before commencing • At the time of the initial payment application, employee must have been employed for at least 4 weeks but not more than 12 weeks • Eligible employee must not be currently, and must not have been, a full-time student within 4 weeks before commencing employment • Employment must not displace any existing workers • If the employee has a disability, they must be engaged in mainstream employment • Apprentice and Trainee Boost applicants must meet Employer Support Payment criteria, have been unemployed for at least 4 weeks, and be undertaking a registered and eligible apprenticeship or traineeship • Youth Boost applicants must meet Employer Support Payment criteria, have been unemployed for at least 4 weeks, and be aged over 15 and under 25 when employment commenced