Posts tagged "apprentices"

Across Australia, businesses are facing a skills crisis, so why were there no creative ideas in the budget to really address the personnel shortage we face?

The federal government has pledged $2.8 billion in funding for an overhauled apprenticeship incentive scheme, promising to grow the ranks of qualified tradespeople by subsidising the wages of select apprentices and trainees.

As South Australians head to the polls tomorrow, here's a quick look at what the two major parties have promised the business community.

'Buddyships' are a mutual exchange of information where the right older and younger employee leverage each other’s unique skill sets, attributes and personalities.

The federal government will expand its apprenticeship wages subsidies program to cover apprentices in their second and third years. 

Under the program, Victorian apprentices and trainees will receive 1,500 opportunities each year for four years to work on some of the state’s largest construction projects.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will announce a $1.2 billion extension of the government’s wage subsidy for businesses taking on apprentices.

If the $1.2 billion apprentice wage subsidy is used to create digital skills, it could enable strong business revival across the board.

The federal government says it wants to help Australian businesses hire 100,000 new apprentices and trainees.

The federal government has paid $500 million to businesses under its apprenticeship and training subsidies program, Michaelia Cash says.

Apprentice wages will be supported through to March next year in a $1.5 billion extension to subsidies that will also see medium sized businesses benefit.

Much of the focus on the educational effect of the coronavirus is falling on schools and universities, but the vocational education and trai…