Access to Free and Flexible Training for New and Existing Employees
Australian Apprenticeships provide a range of benefits for your business.
- People trained to your business requirements.
- Offered in a range of industries.
- Offered at all certificate levels up to Advanced Diploma.
- Flexible choice of Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) who can provide off-the-job training to your Australian Apprentice, with negotiations around timing, location and nature of the training to suit your business needs.
- User choice funding from your State or Territory Training Authority.
- A range of financial incentives for eligible employers.
- Can be full-time, part-time or school-based, depending on what suits your business.
- Nationally recognised qualifications and competencies.
Will all my employees be able to participate?
Access to Government subsidised training may be available to both your new and existing employees. To find out more read below or contact ATEL AusNAC.
Who qualifies as a New Worker?
Employees who have been employed for less than three months full time or less than 12 months part time or casual.
Employers may be eligible to receive up to $5000 Commonwealth incentives payable to a nominated bank account depending on the level and duration of the training program.
The State Government covers cost of training for certificate levels 2 to 4. An enrolment fee is charged and is paid to the registered training organisation.
Payroll tax rebates apply to new workers in NSW for employers who exceed the payroll tax threshold for both apprentices and trainees wages.
Workcover savings may apply:
NSW a rebate is available for premiums paid on apprenticeship wages.
VIC exemptions apply for both Apprenticeships and Traineeships (wages less than $34,052 per annum)
Who qualifies as an Existing Worker?
Employee must have worked for than three months fulltime or twelve months part time or casual
Program must be at AQF level 3 or above, two years or more in duration or classed as a rural and regional skill shortage.
State Government Exemptions do not apply
The State Training Authority does not cover the cost of training and employers are charged on a fee for service basis to be negotiated with the registered training organisation.
Employers may not reduce existing employee's wages and all current industrial arrangements remain unchanged.
Eligible employers receive Commonwealth incentives payable to a nominated bank account.
What are the benefits of competency-based training?
Benefits for employers include:
An increased pool of qualified tradespersons;
More on the job training and associated productivity gains;
Effective response to the need to develop specialist skill sets levels; and
Increased productivity and morale of employees - apprentices work at a higher level and qualify more quickly and have better career path options.
Benefits for apprentices include:
Achieving a qualification in a shorter time period, and so quicker access to higher wages;
Assisting experienced but not formally qualified people to gain a formal qualification;
Attracting older workers to a trade as a shorter time period reduces financial and other costs to mature apprentices and their families; and
Recognition of prior learning and competency-based training allows earlier completion of training and the recognition of prior experience;
Recognition of prior learning is the recognition of competencies currently held, regardless of how, when or where the learning occurred, and this learning is counted towards the achievement of a qualification;
Competency-based training enables an apprenticeship to be completed once all parties have determined competence has been reached - regardless of time served.
Contact ATEL AusNAC on 1300 287 622
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