{"id":8535,"date":"2020-10-05T22:30:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8535"},"modified":"2020-10-05T22:30:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T22:30:38","slug":"100000-new-apprenticeship-positions-to-lead-the-covid-19-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/05\/100000-new-apprenticeship-positions-to-lead-the-covid-19-economic-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"100,000 new apprenticeship positions to lead the COVID-19 economic recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison Government will invest an additional $1.2 billion to support Australian businesses to employ 100,000 new apprentices or trainees as part of our COVID-19 economic recovery plan.<br \/>\nStarting tomorrow, 5 October 2020, businesses who take on a new Australian apprentice will be eligible for a 50 per cent wage subsidy, regardless of geographic location, occupation, industry or business size.<br \/>\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said apprenticeships are an important pathway to get young people into jobs and to ensure there is a skills pipeline to meet the future needs of employers.<br \/>\n\u201cDuring this pandemic the Federal Government has been focused on supporting and creating jobs as well as identifying the skills we need in the economic rebuild,\u201d the Prime Minister said.<br \/>\n\u201cAlready 760,000 jobs that were either lost or reduced to zero hours as the COVID crisis hit, have come back into our economy. We want to continue to recover what has been lost and get young people into work.<br \/>\n\u201cWhether it\u2019s the manufacturing, housing and construction, arts or mining sectors \u2013 this new wage subsidy gives businesses certainty to hire and provides a career path to aspiring, young tradies.\u201d<br \/>\nThe subsidy will be available to employers of any size or industry, Australia-wide who engage an Australian apprentice or trainee from 5 October 2020 until the 100,000 cap is reached.<br \/>\nUnder the new measure, employers will be eligible for 50 per cent of the wages for a new or recommencing apprentice or trainee for the period up to 30 September 2021, up to $7,000 per quarter.<br \/>\nMinister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash said the measure builds on the existing $2.8 billion Supporting Apprentices and Trainees wage subsidy that is helping employers to retain their apprentices and trainees.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Australian Government has already invested significantly to ensure that apprentices are retained where possible and supported to re-engage if they lose their job,\u201d Minister Cash said.<br \/>\nAssistant Minister for Vocational Education, Training and Apprenticeships, the Hon Steve Irons MP, said the new measures we are announcing today will build on the already significant investment to support apprentices and trainees.<br \/>\n\u201cThrough the existing Supporting Apprentices and Trainees measure, as many as 90,000 businesses employing around 180,000 apprentices throughout Australia will continue to be supported,\u201d Assistant Minister Irons said.<br \/>\nMore information on the measure is available at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.employment.gov.au\/boosting-apprenticeship-commencements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.employment.gov.au\/boosting-apprenticeship-commencements<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison Government will invest an additional $1.2 billion to support Australian businesses to employ 100,000 new apprentices or trainees as part of our COVID-19 economic recovery plan. Starting tomorrow, 5 October 2020, businesses who take on a new Australian apprentice will be eligible for a 50 per cent wage subsidy, regardless of geographic location, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/05\/100000-new-apprenticeship-positions-to-lead-the-covid-19-economic-recovery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;100,000 new apprenticeship positions to lead the COVID-19 economic recovery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}