• Job Retention Bonus. To incentivise employers to bring furloughed employees back to work, the government will pay employers a bonus of £1,000 per employee on condition that following the end of the CJRS, they remain employed by their employer until at least January 2021, earning a minimum of £520 per month.
• Kickstart Scheme. This scheme will provide new jobs to 16-24 year olds who are on Universal Credit.  The government will pay the national minimum wage of young people employed under this scheme for the first 6 months of their employment, subject to the job being a new one; salary being a national minimum wage or above and the role being for at least 25 hours per week.  There will be no cap on the number of places available under the scheme and participating employers will also receive £1,000 for administrative costs. It is estimated that this £2 billion scheme will see the creation of 350,000 new jobs.
• Apprentices and trainees. Employers will receive £2,000 to take on young apprentices (£1,500 for apprentices aged 25 and over).  In addition, employers will receive £1,000 to take on new trainees.
• Job centres. There will be a doubling of front line staff at job centres, as well as an extra £32 million for recruiting extra careers advisers.

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