Applying for a qualification allowance for employees for further vocational training

As an employer, you can apply to the Employment Agency for the qualification allowance for all employees who take part in a further training measure

• Download the application, the list of employees and the payroll list and complete the documents.
• Upload the documents via the Employment Agency's eService. You must also attach a declaration of consent from all employees participating in the training.
• The Employment Agency will check the documents. The employment agency can inspect the relevant documents, for example wage or salary statements, documents relating to measures, vacation requests and similar.
• The employment agency will inform you of its decision on your application.
• If you receive training allowance, you will pay this to the relevant employees.

The following requirements must be met:

• The operational requirements are:
  • There are structural change-related qualification requirements in your company and these affect at least 20 percent of employees.
  • You finance further vocational training.
  • You have concluded a company agreement or a collective agreement on company-specific regulations on
    • the use of the training allowance.
    • the associated prospects of your employees for long-term employment in the company and
    • the existence of the need for qualification due to structural change,
• The employees in further training must be participating as part of an existing employment relationship, they have not taken part in any further vocational training funded under this provision in the 4 years prior to submitting their application and their employment relationship has not been terminated or dissolved by a termination agreement.
• Further requirements are:
  • Skills, knowledge and abilities are imparted that go beyond exclusively job-related short-term adaptation training.
  • The provider of the measure is approved for funding.
  • The measure comprises more than 120 hours and has the maximum duration of a full-time measure. A full-time measure is defined in Section 180 (4) of the Third Book of the German Social Code (SGB III).

• Company agreement or collective agreement
• Declarations of consent from employees

As the employer, you bear the costs of the training. There are no costs for the employees.

• §§Sections 82a to 82c of the Third Book of the German Social Code (SGB III)

• Contradiction

There are no indications / special features.

24.11.2024