Delaware Wants To Pay New Hires During Training

Pending approval from the US Dept. of Labor, Delaware employers could get the state to pay 90% of a new hires paycheck during a training period.

Lt. Gov. Matt Denn made the pitch to the Workforce Investment Board at its meeting last month. Under the program, the state will pay 90% of a new employee's wages with a couple of caveats. The employees must have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks, and the business must have 50 or fewer workers.

"This is a great opportunity for us to give our small businesses another tool to hire new workers and give them valuable training," said Denn. "It's also a way for us to incentivize hiring of some of our neighbors who have been out of work for a long time."

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