Do You Have Workforce Needs?

The CCEDC can help your company with its workforce needs in several ways. First, we can provide you with labor market data, wage rate data, and demographics. Second, we match you to resource partners that could met your employment needs by helping you find and hire the right employees, find training wage subsidies and applicable tax credits, identify training needs and training providers, and find money to help fund training. Finally, the CCEDC can help provide you with information on Pennsylvania labor laws.

Clarion County Labor Data

Available Workforce Assistance

Employee Recruitment — Sam Wagner, Clarion County Career Link, 814-226-1550.
On-The-Job Training Wage Assistance — Tina Siegel, Clarion County Career Link, 814-226-1550, tsiegel@clarioncareerlink.org
There are two tax credit programs that employers could use for qualified new hires. The federal Work Opportunity Tax Credit provides employers as much as $9,000 per new hire — 40 percent of qualified wages for the first year and 50 percent for the second year of employment — as an incentive to hire job seekers identified as Long-term Family Assistance Recipients. The state Employment Incentive Payment (EIP) Program could provide an employer a maximum one year tax credit of up to $2,700 for hiring a qualified cash welfare recipient or vocational rehabilitation referrals.
Looking to provide real-life working experience for students pursuing higher education in Pennsylvania but need help with wages? The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency provides financial assitance to both for-profit and non-profit employers through two programs, the State Work-Study Program (SWSP) and the Community Service Program.
Grants from the Workforce & Economic Develoment Network (WEDNET) could help pay for the cost of training enployees. For more information, please contact Juanice Vega, MBA, Clarion University of Pennsylvania at 814-393-1892 or jvega@clarion.edu
Links to improve Improve Safety in the workplace.
Would you like to reduce your workers' compensation premiums by 5 percent each year? The Pennsylvania Workplace Saftey Committee Certification Program could help your company reduce its workers compensation cost.
Clarion Hospital's HealthWorks offers employers services such as pre-employment physicals, drug screenings, and worker's compensation case/injury management. Please click on HealthWorks for more information.
Learn How to Improve Your OSHA Performance at IUP.
The TrainingPA.com website is designed to help you quickly find training classes, courses and programs that match your needs. Our database contains training providers and courses primarily from Clarion, Venango and Crawford counties in Pennsylvania.
Employees looking for a child care provider in your area? Search online through COMPASS.