Get on board with training for employees

Iowa businesses have access to a number of job training programs for their employees that are low to no cost. So whether your expanding your existing business, locating a new business here or seeking to upskill your existing employees, there is a program that meets your needs.

Who Provides the Training

State job training programs (like 260E and 260F) are provided and administered locally through Southeastern Community College (SCC) in West Burlington. For more information on the programs available, contact Brenda Rubey with the information below or check out Southeastern Community College’s site.

Brenda Rubey
Center for Business (CBIZ)
Southeastern Community College
319-208-5384
brubey@scciowa.edu

Iowa Industrial New Jobs Training (260E)

The Industrial New Jobs Training Program (260E) is an incentive program that provides qualifying businesses with financial assistance to pay for job training programs by diverting a portion of the employee's Iowa withholding taxes.  This diversion of withholding taxes enables SCC to finance bonds that provide the funding upfront.

Depending on wages each new position is paid, the business can divert either 1.5% or 3% of the withholding, which SCC uses to retire the bonds.

Participating business in the Iowa Industrial New Jobs Training Program may also be eligible for reimbursement up to 50 percent of the annual gross payroll costs expended for on-the-job training, as well as a corporate tax credit if Iowa employment is increased by at least 10 percent.

260E Program Eligibility

Business Eligibility:

• Must be located in, or relocating to Iowa
• Must be engaged in interstate or intrastate commerce for the purpose of manufacturing, processing, assembling products, warehousing, wholesaling, or conducting research and development
• Service-providing businesses must have customers outside of Iowa
• Cannot have closed or substantially reduced its employment base at any of its other business sites in Iowa in order to relocate substantially the same operation to another area of the state

Employee Eligibility:

• Must be in newly created position(s)
• Must pay Iowa withholding tax
• Service-providing businesses must have customers outside of Iowa
• Must occupy job positions that did not exist during the six months prior to the date that the business and community college agree to pursue a training project

Iowa Jobs Training Program (260F)

The Iowa Jobs Training Program provides job training services to current employees of eligible businesses that are located in Iowa. Eligible businesses can work with SCC, which will assess training needs, determine funding available and provide training. For participating businesses, the advantages include valuable employee training at a low to no cost.

260F Program Eligibility
Business Eligibility:

• Must be located in Iowa.
• Must be engaged in interstate or intrastate commerce for the purpose of manufacturing, processing, assembling products, warehousing, wholesaling, or conducting research and development
• Service-providing businesses must have customers outside of Iowa
• Within the 36-month period prior to the date of applying for program services, a business cannot have closed or reduced its employment base by more than 20 percent at any of its other business sites in Iowa in order to relocate substantially the same operation to another area of the state

Employee Eligibility:

• Must be currently employed by the business
• Must pay Iowa withholding tax