Employment Supports and Services
This page tells you about employment supports and services for employers.
JobsPlus
JobsPlus is an employer incentive which encourages and rewards employers who offer employment opportunities to individuals who are unemployed. It provides employers with two levels of payment: €7,500 or €10,000 over 18 months, with the level of payment depending on the age of the jobseeker and the length of time in receipt of a qualifying payment.
For further information:
Contact: your local Employer Relations Officer
Visit: gov.ie/JobsPlus
Work Placement Experience Programme (WPEP)
The Work Placement Experience Programme (WPEP) allows employers to host a jobseeker on a work experience placement and to help the jobseeker to build new skills and gain valuable work experience.
Employers who host a WPEP participant will provide a placement for 6 months with the participant attending for work experience for 30 hours a week. There is no cost to the host/employer; the participant will be paid by the Department of Social Protection during their work placement. The WPEP payment will be a minimum of €369 per week per participant. No top-up payments from an employer to the participant are permitted. Jobseekers must meet the WPEP eligibility criteria.
For further information:
Contact: your local Employer Relations Officer
Visit: Gov.ie/Work Placement Experience Programme – Employers
Redundancy
If your business is facing redundancies, Intreo can assist your workers to plan ahead by providing:
- support to access new job opportunities.
- advice on education and training opportunities.
If you are financially unable to pay statutory redundancy, we can directly pay employees a once off payment under the Redundancy Payments Scheme. We will seek to recover the debt from you as the employer through an agreed schedule of repayments.
For more information:
Visit: www.gov.ie/redundancy