Trade apprentices will help our post COVID-19 recovery. We need to do more to keep them in work
- Written by Peter Hurley, Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
ShutterstockThe Australian government needs to urgently act to protect Australia’s 180,000 trade apprentices from the economic effects of the coronavirus.
Advertised vacancies for new apprentices have collapsed due to COVID-19 – from 1,731 vacancies in January to 880 in March 2020.
If the trend continues over the next year it will lead...
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