COVID – 19 Wage Subsidy
Wage Subsidy available to support employers, including sole traders, impacted by COVID-19, and face laying off staff or reducing hours.
You can apply to cover the wages of your employees over a 12 week period. You can’t apply for the same employee twice.
Who can apply
You can apply if you’re:
- an employer
- if you have casual employees, you can apply for them if they’re employed by you at the time you apply and they would have expected to work during the time you will receive the subsidy
- if you have an employee on ACC earnings related compensation, you can’t apply for them. But you can apply for them if they’ve returned to work and no longer get ACC.
- a sole-trader
- you can also apply if you’re a sole trader who’s also an employee and your employer has already applied for a Wage Subsidy for you
- a contractor
- a shareholder in a business (ie, you work for the business and are paid a wage, salary or draw an income for the work you do)
- a partner in a business (ie, each partner is paid a wage, salary or draws an income for the work they do).
In all cases you need to meet the criteria for the Wage Subsidy.
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