Incumbent Worker Training Fund

The Incumbent Worker Training Fund offers training support to businesses in Dorchester, Kent and Queen Anne’s counties with a plan or an interest in training their current working individuals. The applicants must not be contractual employees.

All trainings must result in a credential that confirms completion.

 

Expected outcomes include at least one of the following:

 

• Improving alignment of existing workers’ skills with evolving job requirements

• Providing participants with access to new career opportunities within a business or industry

• Encouraging worker retention through the promotion of up-to-date skills training

• Increasing wages of incumbent participants

• Creating new opportunities for entry-level workers by providing opportunities for promotion of existing workforce

• Supporting and enhancing local and regional economic environments

 

Training support is defined as expense reimbursements for:

 

1. Occupational classroom training and up-skilled certifications in a defined, career pathway

2. Work and learn strategies such as:

   1. Cross-training work assignments within the company

   2. In-house proprietary training using current employee trainers

   3. In-house proprietary training from outside vendors

   4. Outside training vendors performing training at locations outside the business

 

These may be combined to provide a specific learning goal that relates directly to the qualifications for a promoted job title and/or a defined career pathway within the company. Training expenses will be a maximum of $5,000 per company, with a targeted training rate
of $1,500 per individual, though the targeted rate per individual is negotiable.