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Central Mass. manufacturers
pay employees to get training
and degrees
Get paid while
you learn
BY SARAH CONNELL
I
n the spring of 2018, Walmart made national
headlines when the retailer said it would pay
for employees to obtain business degrees.
These types of tuition assistance and educa-
tional reimbursement programs have become in
vogue thanks to high-profile businesses like
Amazon and Starbucks wanting to improve the
quality of their workers' training.
This, of course, isn't news to the manufacturing
industry, which has pioneered on-the-job training
and educational assistance in order to keep good
workers at their companies, advancing up the lad-
Since starting at Metso
in 2005, Emmanuel
Gomez has been
promoted from lab
technician to supervisor
of application engineers.
Metso Flow Control
Shrewsbury
Makes: Valves
Employees: 450
Employee education programs: Tuition
reimbursement, co-op/internship program,
and onsite training
