Core Provisions: This legislation would direct the Secretary of Labor to establish a program to make grants to states to assist employers in providing incumbent worker training. The federal government’s share of the costs would top out at 50 percent. Grant funds could not be used to pay wages or lost revenue connected with the incumbent worker training, and could not fund training to prepare the employee to assume the responsibilities associated with the job that the employee holds with the employer.

Status: Rep. Kagen (D-WI) introduced H.R. 6797 on August 1, 2008, and it was referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.