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Employment and skills update | 24 March 2023
24 Mar 2023
Jobs and Skills Australia
This week the Jobs and Skills Australia Amendment Bill was introduced into the House of Representatives, see here. The JSA will not be an independent statutory agency with an independent board. Instead the JSA will be a statutory body within the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, the body will be led by a Commissioner and will report directly to the Minister.
Instead of an independent board, there will be a Ministerial Advisory Board consisting of a Chair; two members representing the states and territories; three members representing employee organisations; three members representing employer organisations; and not more than four other members. The function of the Ministerial Advisory Board will be to advise the minister and the JSA Commissioner in relation to the performance of the functions of JSA. ACCI will continue to state the need for an independent board within an independent statutory authority but in the meantime the advisory board will be the context within which we will operate. There are three employer organisation spots, our focus in now on ACCI obtaining one of those three positions.
Apprentice and trainees maintain high employment rate
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) has released its latest report detailing the proportion of apprentices and trainees employed after training. Apprentice and trainee outcomes 2022 shows that 94.9 per cent of apprentices and trainees who completed their training in a trade occupation were employed after training, similar to 2021. Of these, 67.7 per cent were with the same employer as their apprenticeship or traineeship.
For those who completed training in non-trade occupations, 89.3 per cent were employed after training, up 1.7 percentage points from 2021, of which 70.9 per cent were with the same employer as their apprenticeship or traineeship.
New for the 2022 report are outcomes of apprentices and trainees who did not complete their training, showing about 84 per cent of non-completers, from both trade and non-trade occupations, were employed after leaving their training. These figures enforce ACCI’s message that non-completion should not be treated as failure, rather valuable skills have been learnt.
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