Back to Work Employer Incentive Payments

Eligible employers are all employers except government entities, including local, state and Commonwealth governments, government owned corporations and statutory bodies. Employers must have a good workplace safety and industrial relations record and a genuine commitment to ongoing employment of the employee. Eligible jobs must be mainly located in eligible local government areas and 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), for a person with disability working between 8 and 20 hours per week consistent with an approved benchmark, or be a registered and eligible Queensland full-time or part-time apprenticeship. Eligible employee criteria for the Employer Support Payment include being a permanent resident of Australia with principal residence in Queensland, being unemployed for the required minimum period before commencing employment, not having worked for the employer in the previous 52 weeks, being employed for at least four weeks but not more than 12 weeks when the initial payment application is made, not being a current or recent full-time student, not displacing existing workers, and if the employee has a disability, being engaged in mainstream employment. Additional criteria apply for Apprentice and Trainee Boost and Youth Boost payments, including at least four weeks unemployment prior to employment, undertaking an eligible apprenticeship or traineeship, and for Youth Boost being over 15 and under 25 years of age at commencement.