Extra incentive payments available for hiring an apprentice

The good people at MEGT have put together this flyer on the benefits that are available for hiring an apprentice before the end of February 2013. With an additional $4000 available to hire a mature aged apprentice, these incentives can really help grow your business....

Onsite Assessments

Our goal at FCTA – Building Careers is to offer employers flexibility with training. We can co-ordinate onsite assessments of units where apprentices are completing specific tasks – for example mosaic tiling, applying basic levelling procedures, constructing bulkheads...

FREE SUPPORT for Australian Apprentices & Employers

A new service has been set up to provide mentoring to apprentices and people who employ apprentices. The HIA Apprenticeship Mentoring Program aims to: • Provide help about any work or personal issues that could be affecting work • General information • Advice and...

Updating training contracts to the latest qualification

If you are an apprentice in SA, you have a training contract written up when you are first signed up. Sometimes this can happen right before a training package – and the qualifications, are updated. If you are a current apprentice and you were signed up under...

ABBTF Announces a NEW Incentive to Employ Apprentice Bricklayers

The Australian Brick & Blocklaying Training Foundation (ABBTF) have just announced an additional incentive: The new ‘Brickstart Bonus’ involves a $1,000 incentive for employers who take on a new apprentice between 2 January 2012 and 30 April 2012 and is payable to...