Overview

On the Job Training National Emergency Grants (OJT-NEG) provide a method to jump start re-employment for dislocated workers experiencing prolonged unemployment by enabling employers to create training and job opportunities for these individuals through an “earn and learn” program.

Benefits

Program participants are given an opportunity to develop applicable occupational skills while earning a paycheck while employers training program participants receive reimbursement to offset the extraordinary cost of training workers. OJT will help workers become proficient in needed skills and encourage employers to hire these well-qualified individuals.

Eligibility

Ohio’s OJT program aims to place prolonged unemployed dislocated workers in permanent jobs by reimbursing eligible employers for the costs of training the individuals they commit to hire based on a percent of the trainee’s wages.

Employers in statewide targeted industries, employers from an Ohio Skills Bank targeted industry and employers hiring in a local demand occupation qualify for OJT-NEG.

Eligible training participants are individuals that have been unemployed for 22.53 weeks (158 days) or longer.

Rates/Terms

Wage must equal or exceed state minimum wage, currently $7.30 per hour.

Total cost of participant OJT cannot exceed $8,000.

Wage to be reimbursed cannot exceed $19.37 per hour.

Length of training cannot exceed six months (1,040 hours).

Contact

Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber at 330.392.6140
Ohio Department of Development at 330.797.6301 or
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services - Ohio One Stop at 330.965.1787