Workforce Training Assistance
Eligibility to Participate
A. Guarantee that the training requested will supplement, rather
than replace, the company's ongoing, normal training efforts.
B. Agree to pay wages equal to at least twice minimum wage ($12.50)
at completion of training, if no benefits are provided to the employee.
- In calculating completion-of-training wages, waivers shall
be granted up to 25% for new hires (minimum allowable wage is $9.37) and
15% for upgrade or crossover training (minimum allowable wage is $10.62),
if an employer offers three of the following: health care benefits with
50% of the premium paid by the employer; dental assistance; paid vacation
and holidays; child care; other extraordinary benefits and retirement benefits.
Three of these benefits must be provided to the employee by the end of the
first six months of full employment.
- If an employer operates in a labor market area where unemployment
is 50% greater than the State's current average, the employer must agree
to pay wages equal to at least one and one half times minimum wage at the
completion of training.
C. Submit a training plan which includes the following elements:
- Objectives of the training with job descriptions/curriculum
outlines of positions to be trained;
- Number of trainees and time required to train for each position;
- Facility, equipment and material to be used for training.
- All training positions shall be permanent full-time (40 hours
minimum). Seasonal and temporary employment is not considered full-time
permanent employment.
D. Employer provides a minimum of 50% of the overall training
costs.
Companies operating an industrial manufacturing facility as
defined: "to make from raw materials, the process of making wares by
hand or machinery, a productive industry using mechanical power and machinery."
