NSW Regional Skills Relocation Grant
If you are looking to find and attract skilled workers to Regional NSW, then the NSW Regional Skills Relocation Grant may be for your business
Funding
Funding of up to $12,500 is available. And can cover:
- relocation expenses:
- furniture removal including removalist services or trailer/truck or ute hire to relocate the employee’s home/residence
- pet boarding for up to three months
- travel for employee and immediate family to relocate
- temporary accommodation for up to 3 months
- furniture storage for up to 3 months
- Up to $1000 of the grant may be accessed to support an in-person candidate interview, or pre-employment site-visit (payable if candidate is successfully employed).
- Eligible businesses can also claim up to $2,500, as part of their total grant, to access qualified recruitment services, or HR professionals, to provide tailored recruitment assistance for the pre-approved role/s. The business can apply to be reimbursed once a candidate has been successfully employed.
Eligible Businesses
Your business must operate in the industries that drive growth in regional economies and generally would include:
- agribusiness and forestry
- resources and mining
- tourism (where regionally significant and/or iconic)
- health and aged care (where serving populations from out of region)
- freight and logistics
- advanced manufacturing
- renewable energy
- technology-enabled primary industry.
This does not include hospitality or retail businesses.
Your business must be a private business, or co-operative operating as a legal entity and
- be relocating to, or setting up in, regional NSW and creating at least five new ongoing full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs in the local community, or
- already operating in regional NSW and seeking to recruit eligible employees
Eligible employees
Eligible employees are skilled workers that:
- are relocating from a metropolitan area within NSW, or from another location outside NSW to regional NSW, to a residence that is at least 50 kilometres from the original residence, and is:
- within the same Functional Economic Region as the eligible business or
- within 100 kilometres of the eligible business
- are Australian citizens or permanent residents on the date they start employment
- have an occupation on the Commonwealth Skilled Occupation List for the Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491 and 489)
Key conditions
If you want to receive this grant, you firstly need to apply for pre-approval for the role/s before employing the person.
Eligible businesses need to register their interest by email, providing their business name, location, and industry, to regionalnsw.business@regional.nsw.gov.au
Learn More
To learn more click here
Applications close 15 December 2023
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