Kansas Industrial Retraining (KIR)

The Kansas Industrial Retraining (KIR) program is a job retention tool that helps restructuring companies retrain employees who are likely to be displaced because of obsolete or inadequate job skills and knowledge.

Who Qualifies

To be eligible, a company must show how they are restructuring their current business operations, retrain at least one existing position at an average wage equal to or greater than the median wage for their county and show how the employee will be displaced.

Eligible Expenditures

• Instructor salaries
• Curriculum planning and development
• Materials, supplies, textbooks
• Training aids
• Minor training equipment
• Travel

Application Fees

A non-refundable application fee of $500.00 will be required for all Kansas Industrial Retraining (KIR) applications at the time of application submission.

KIR Resources