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N.J. offers training grants for some workers

New Jersey employers who hire and train former pharmaceutical workers can receive training grants of up to $14,000 per worker over six months, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced Monday.

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New Jersey employers who hire and train former pharmaceutical workers can receive training grants of up to $14,000 per worker over six months, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced Monday.

Employers from all industries can participate, but the program will only cover former employees from approved locations of Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hoffman-La Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., and Pfizer.

The state received the federal grant that underwrites this program in October 2010. No one from the Labor Department was immediately available to explain why the program was only just announced.

The program will be administered through the state's Life Sciences Talent Network at BioNJ, an organization in Trenton that fosters biotechnology in New Jersey.    - Jane M. Von Bergen