Australian Workers Must Give Massive Pay Raises to Apprentices, Says Government
Which means they probably won't hire them at all
The decision will revolutionise a regime that employs more than 500,000 apprentices and trainees across Australia.
Employers lashed the ruling saying it would destroy the apprenticeship system and hurt tens of thousands of businesses.
And one employer group said the decision would lead to more overseas workers being brought in, because of the expense of local apprentices.
As part of the decision, pay rates for a typical first year apprentice who had finished high school will rise from about $304 to nearly $400 – an increase of almost a third.
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I thought Apprentices were unpaid Indentures who slaved away in the workshop of a master craftsman in hopes of learning a trade and graduating to journeyman. When did they get paid?
When the layoffs and the higher prices begin, it will be blamed on greedy businesses.