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The Department of Social Protection

The Employer Relations Division is a national team whose aim is to promote, develop and deliver a comprehensive, integrated quality service for employers availing of Intreo services. We work with over 7,000 employers to help them advertise vacancies and to connect them with potential employees. We offer a wide range of supports that include financial incentives, tailored advertisements, and recruitment fairs. Our officers are based all over the country to ensure that employers receive local support from experienced members of staff.

Who we are?

A single point of contact for all the Department’s employment and income supports for employers.

  • Advertise job vacancies for free 

  • Help match employers with the best candidates

  • Organise recruitment fairs

  • Run a free website for recruitment with JobsIreland.ie

  • Employment schemes and financial supports

  • Support businesses to employ people with disabilities

  • Provide recruitment support across the continent through the European Employment Services (EURES) 

 

Who we service?

  • Employers
  • Jobseekers
  • Self-employed
  • Training providers

What we do?

We provide and manage a number of financial incentives to support employers taking on new staff, including:

  • JobsPlus - a financial incentive to encourage employers to offer job opportunities to unemployed people
  • Wage Subsidy Scheme - a financial incentive to private sector employers to employ people with a disability
  • Work Placement Experience Programme (WPEP) - a voluntary work experience programme for jobseekers wanting to try something new
  • Work and Access - a set of supports for employers and employees that aim to remove or reduce barriers in the workplace for people with a disability.

At a glance

Focus
  • Recruitment and financial supports
Sectors
  • All sectors
Network
  • 61 Offices Nationwide
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Get financial support to start your own business and retain social welfare payments

Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme

The Back to Work Enterprise Allowance scheme allows those embarking on self employment to retain some existing welfare benefits while setting up a new business

You may be eligible if you: 

  • Are getting certain social welfare payments  

  • Want to become self-employed 

  • Have been receiving social welfare for at least nine months.  

    Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions. 

Grants

Provide an unemployed person with a job opportunity

JobsPlus Subsidy

JobsPlus is a financial incentive to encourage employers to offer job opportunities to unemployed people.

Businesses with recruitment needs that need to manage the cost of employment. 

You may be eligible if:

  • You are registered as a business with the Revenue Commissioners and are tax compliant
  • You offer full-time employment of at least 30 hours per week, over a minimum of four days. 

Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions.

Talent & Hiring

Offer voluntary work experience placements to jobseekers

Work Placement Experience Programme

The Work Placement Experience Programme (WPEP) is a voluntary work experience programme for jobseekers who are currently getting a qualifying social welfare payment and have been unemployed for six months or more.

Businesses offering voluntary work experience placements.

You may be eligible if:

  • You are registered as a business with the Revenue Commissioners and are tax compliant 
  • You have a minimum of one full-time employee who is employed for at least 30 hours per week.
  • You can offer a structured and supervised work placement experience.

Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions.

Talent & Hiring

Financial supports to help make workplaces more accessible

Work and Access

Work and Access is a set of supports for employers and employees that aim to remove or reduce barriers in the workplace for people with a disability.

Businesses that are making their workplaces more accessible for people with disabilities. 

You may be eligible if:

  • You are a private-sector, community, not-for-profit, or voluntary business in Ireland
  • You have offered employment to a person with a disability and they will require workplace adaptations to undertake duties 
  • You have an employee who developed an illness, condition or impairment (occupational or otherwise) that affects their ability to carry out their job
  • You have a workforce that requires training in the area of Disability, Equality and Inclusion

Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions

Talent & Hiring

Financial support for businesses that employ people with a disability

Wage Subsidy Scheme

The Wage Subsidy Scheme gives financial incentives to private sector employers to employ people with a disability. The work offered must be for a minimum of 15 hours per week, with the subsidy available for up to 39 hours per week. 

Businesses with recruitment needs.  

You may be eligible if: 

  • You are registered as a business with the Revenue Commissioners and are tax compliant  

  • You can offer a minimum six-month contract 

Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions. 

Talent & Hiring

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