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Employment Arrangements

Traineeships are flexible enough to accommodate all sorts of employment and training options including fulltime employment and part-time employment.

There are a number of scenarios that may work for your business. For example, you might not have enough work for a fulltime trainee:

You may be able to share a full-time trainee with another business (ie 2 days in your business one week and 3 in another and then so the trainee works 3 days in your business and then 2 days in the other the next week).

OR

You might only want to employ your trainee part-time.

Contact your local Australian Apprenticeships Centre for more information.

Mature aged trainees

You may be able to employ a mature age person as a trainee. In fact there are particular Commonwealth financial incentives that apply to employers who employ a mature age trainee.

Click on the link below for more information or contact your local Australian Apprenticeships Centre.

New Apprenticeships - employer incentives

Part-time and casual employees

You may be also able to employ a part-time or casual employee as a trainee. Generally, people employed on a part-time or casual basis can be considered as a trainee if their employment with you, prior to commencing their traineeship, does not exceed twelve months.

For example:

If a person is casually employed for 4 months and during this period worked 38 hours each and every week of the 4 months, he/she can be employed as a new entrant trainee.

If you employ a casual employee as a trainee then the employee is no longer a regarded a ‘casual' employee.

For more information on this matter please use this link to find your local Australian Apprenticeships Centre.