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Government Incentives
Work skill vouchers and business skill vouchers - as announced by the Federal Government - click the link for more information!
Incentives for Employing Existing Staff as New Apprentices (Trainees)
Employers commencing an Apprentice (Trainee) who is a new or existing worker may be eligible for training incentives for Australian Apprentices undertaking a Certificate III or IV where the full time nominal training period of the Training Contract is two years or more.
The federal government provides funding for the employer that more than covers the cost of the training for eligible staff.
The basic eligibility for employers to receive the federal government incentive funding is that staff:
- Need to be an Australian citizen or resident or from New Zealand and been an Australian resident for six months
- Cannot have a financial interest in the business
- Cannot have already completed a Certificate III qualification or above in the last seven years
- Must be either a part-time or full-time employee.
The process for determining employee eligibility for funding is part of Jigsaw’s LNA process in the initial stage. In consultation with the AAC, an initial check for eligibility is undertaken by checking the name and date-of-birth for each employee interested in training against a national database. This database provides details for any certificate qualification employees may have completed in the last seven years. Initial eligibility is also attained by asking each employee some basic questions about previous qualifications and eligibility criteria.
Please note that this is only an indicative indication of eligibility because the confirmation of eligibility is only gained when the training contracts have been sent by the AAC to Canberra for a definitive eligibility check.
Click here for information on Recognition of Prior Learning
Costs of Training
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