Business Engagement

Whether you're growing, diversifying, or streamlining your business operations, Iowa Workforce Development offers essential resources to support employers at every stage of the business cycle.

Our team of experts is available for guidance, addressing a wide range of inquiries. Whether you seek assistance with recruitment strategies, exploring tax credits for new hires, tailored training initiatives, or in-depth insights into your local labor market, they are here to help.

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An Extension of Your Business

  • Business Engagement provides critical resources for employers, including support of day-to-day services.
  • Business Engagement connects employers with a wide variety of resources to help you find, expand, or build your workforce.

How IWD Helps Business

Whether you develop, expand, or consolidate your business, Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) has the
tools employers need.

Recruitment Assistance

  • Iowa’s Largest Job Bank - iowaworks.gov
  • Hiring Events
  • On-Site Recruitment

Diversify Your Workforce

  • Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation
  • Adult Dislocated Workers
  • Immigrant and Refugee Programs
  • Veterans

Build Your Pipeline

  • Iowa Jobs Training Program
  • Work-based Learning
  • Registered Apprenticeship Programs
  • Virtual Workshops

Employer Resources

  • Business Sector Partnerships
  • Labor Market Information
  • Rapid Response
  • My Iowa UI
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For more information please visit your local IowaWORKS office or visit the Iowa Workforce Development website at www.iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov.

Here to Help

Each IowaWORKS center has a local Business Engagement Consultant who can provide one-on-one support to help your business tackle any workforce challenge. To Contact Your Local BEC, please go to https://workforce.iowa.gov/employers/iwd-business/bec 

Resources

For more information related to Employer and Workplace Posters please go to https://workforce.iowa.gov/employers/resources/posters

 

 

WARN Act

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires employers with 100 or more employees to give 60 calendar days written notice when there is a plant closing or mass layoff. This protects workers, their families, and communities. The notice provides employees time to prepare for the potential loss of their jobs, find new employment, and, if necessary, enroll in training.

For more information: https://workforce.iowa.gov/employers/resources/warn

WARN Contact Information

For questions and issuances of WARN notifications, please contact the State Rapid Response Coordinator at Iowa Workforce Development.

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