Overview
of the California Education Training Panel
Funds are provided
through the Education
Training Panel to businesses residing in California
to defer the cost of providing longer training programs to California
employers. Some overview information on the Education Training
Panel web site is presented below.
ETP has
paid over $645 million in training funds since its inception,
with over 336,000 California workers trained. 31,000 California
businesses have been served, and 80 percent of the companies
participating have been small businesses with fewer than 250
employees per firm. ETP uses the Employment Training Fund (one-tenth
of one percent of subject unemployment insurance wages paid
by every private, for-profit employer in the state and some
non-profits also) amounting to no more than $7.00 per covered
employee per year. ETP usually provides between $70-$100 million
per year in training funds. In general, companies are eligible
to apply for ETP funding provided they are paying into the
state's Employment Training Fund.
General
Qualifications Requirements for ETP Funding
While there
are a number of requirements associated with the program. Some
of the more important ones include:
Being a
California employer who pays into the Unemployment Insurance
Fund
Being a
company that is in manufacturing or that must deal with out
of state competition
Having that
ability to put together a class size of 20 students
Having full-time
employees working 35 hours or more per week
Committing
to 40, 60 or 80-hour programs of training
Insuring
employees in the class must meet a minimum wage standard.
Steps to
Accessing State of California Training Funds
Legacee provides
the instructors and course materials while other funding agencies
hold contracts with the State of California. This provides the
funding mechanisms that enable a company to offer a program of
training to their employees with a minimum amount of administrative
effort. Legacee professionals work for some of the largest training
organizations and funding agencies in southern California.
They include:
The California
Manufacturing and Technology Center,
The El
Camino College Center For Applied Competitive Technology, and
CCT Learning
Solutions.
An employer
signs a contractual agreement one of our partners who administer
the funds provided by the state. We will be happy to refer you
to the appropriate individuals who can provide more information
and get you started. If you need more information, please do
not hesitate to contact us.
