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Victoria Leads On Training
22 April 1993
The number of apprentices and trainees taken on by business jumped sharply in the second half of last year, with Victorian employers leading the way, according to the federal Department of Employment, Education and Training.
The encouraging figures, which show apprentice intakes up by one-third on 1991 levels and the end of a worrying two-year slump, confirm that employers in key industries are more optimistic about the future.
They also suggest that the Federal Government's cash incentives, announced in the One Nation statement early last year to encourage recession-hit employers to maintain their training effort, have started to bite.
Employers took on 17,059 apprentices between July and December last year, up 33 per cent on the same period in 1991, according to figures in the department's March job report, released yesterday.
The number of new traineeship opportunities also surged. More than 5000 young people were recruited into work-training positions in the last six months of 1992, up 150 per cent on recruitment levels a year earlier.
The picture is rosiest in Victoria, although there is more ground to be made up by the state worst hit by recession.
Victoria's employers hired 4546 apprentices during the second half of last year, a 78 per cent increase on the same period the year before.
The turnaround in traineeship recruitment was even more dramatic, up almost four-fold from a meagre 358 between July and December 1991 to 1629 a year later.
Most trade groups shared in the national surge in apprentice recruitment, with some key areas doing particularly well. The building industry recorded a hefty 41 per cent jump while the number of new apprentices increased by 28 per cent in the vehicle trades, and by 25 per cent in the food trades. More than 2190 people were taken on as apprentice hairdressers, a rise of 26 per cent on the July-December result in 1991.
In other good news, the job report also showed that: Job vacancies notified to the Commonwealth Employment Service in the last three months of 1992 were up by 32 per cent on the same period a year earlier, with Victorian CES offices recording a 44 per cent increase.
The CES placed more than 135,780 people in jobs in the December quarter, a 34 per cent increase over the previous year.
More than 454,140 people were placed in the Government's employment and training programs last year.
