cover image: Building a worker-focussed incentive scheme - Australian Council of Trade Unions submission to the Strategic

Building a worker-focussed incentive scheme - Australian Council of Trade Unions submission to the Strategic

15 May 2024

As custodians of the skills and training system and the representatives of apprentices and trainees across the country, the ACTU welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the Strategic Review. [...] Responses to the Terms of Reference Term of Reference 1 Consider the effectiveness and efficiency of the Incentive System, against the objectives of encouraging take-up and completion of apprenticeships and traineeships, and examine the complementary role of services, support and high- quality training provision. [...] It is our view that this is the case due to a number of critical failures in the design of the incentive system – failures which go to the core of the system and who (and what) it attempts to incentivise. [...] Term of Reference 4 consider the effectiveness of the Incentive System and associated services and support in creating training environments that encourage the take up and completion of apprenticeships and traineeships by women and people who face additional barriers to undertaking training (including people in rural, regional and remote areas and First Nations peoples); Measures to enhance the pa. [...] Issues not covered in the Terms of Reference In addition to those outlined above, there are a number of issues in the apprenticeship space which do not strictly meet the scope of the Review which we believe nonetheless should be considered in order to fully address the issues driving commencements and completions by apprentices.

Authors

Christopher Watts

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Pages
23
Published in
Australia

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