Back to Work Employer Incentive Payments

• Applicant must be an eligible employer and not a government entity, including local, State or Commonwealth governments, 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. • Employee must be hired on or before 2025-06-30. • Job must be mainly located in an eligible Queensland region or local government area. • Job must be ongoing paid full-time (at least 35 hours per week on average), ongoing paid part-time (at least 20 hours per week on average), disability benchmark hours of 8 to 20 hours per week where applicable, or an eligible Queensland apprenticeship. • Employee must be a permanent resident of Australia and principally reside in Queensland. • Employee must have been unemployed for the minimum required period before commencing employment. • Employee must not have worked for the employer in the 52 weeks before commencing employment. • At the time of the initial payment application, employee must have been in paid employment with the employer for at least 4 weeks but not more than 12 weeks. • Employee must not be a current full-time student or have been a full-time student within 4 weeks before commencing employment. • Employment must not displace existing workers. • If the employee has a disability, they must be engaged in mainstream employment. • For Apprentice and Trainee Boost, the employee must also have been unemployed for at least 4 weeks and be undertaking a registered and eligible apprenticeship or traineeship. • For Youth Boost Payment, the employee must also be over 15 and under 25 years of age when employment commences, and have been unemployed for at least 4 weeks.