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Job Service North Dakota

Job Service North Dakota provides customer-focused services to meet the current and emerging workforce development needs of the state. Job Service North Dakota is a central point for the administration of federal and state workforce training programs in the state. The Workforce Investment Act, New Jobs Training, and Workforce 2020 are federal and state skill training grant programs administered by Job Service North Dakota.

Employee Training

North Dakota New Jobs Training Program provides incentives to businesses that are creating new employment opportunities through business expansion and relocation to the state. The program provides primary sector businesses with no-cost funding to help offset the cost of training new employees. The North Dakota New Jobs Training Program provides for the capture of the state income tax withholding generated from the new job positions that are created.

TrainND, North Dakota’s Workforce Training System, provides training for business and industry enhancing their ability to compete globally. The goal of TrainND is to provide the best, most up-to-date training to employees, making them more competitive in the workforce and more valuable to an employer. TrainND's network of resources and subject matter experts allows them to provide custom-tailored training for your unique business and employees.

Funding Assistance

Workforce 2020 provides funding assistance to businesses to offset training costs for current workers and new employees when the business is new to the state, expanding employment in the state, introducing new technologies or new production methods.

Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) by the Small Business and Work Opportunity Act of 2007 extends the WOTC Program through August 31, 2011. The WOTC has two purposes:

1. To promote the hiring of individuals who qualify as a member of a target group;

2. To provide a federal tax credit to employers who hire these individuals.

An employer may qualify for a tax credit of up to $9,000 if the employee is a member of a designated target group and meets that group's specific requirements.


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