Academic says companies ‘squealing’ to government about worker skill shortage are contributing to it
Construction and retail in Melbourne. The share of workers getting on-the-job training has fallen from about a third in 2005 to about 20% today, the University of Sydney’s John Buchanan said.Construction and retail in Melbourne. The share of workers getting on-the-job training has fallen from about a third in 2005 to about 20% today, the University of Sydney’s John Buchanan said.
The share of workers getting on-the-job training has fallen from about a third in 2005 to about 20% today, said John Buchanan, co-director of the University of Sydney’s mental wealth initiative. Industrial relations issues have dominated the run-up to the summit on Thursday and Friday. Attention, though, may shift to the skills component of the event as ministers outline policies aimed at lifting the capacity of workers and improving their prospects ofChalmers, along with fellow ministers Julie Collins and Stephen Jones, released for public consultation details of two tax incentives contained in the March budget of the previous government that had not been legislated.
Gerald Burke, a Monash University professor who outlined the long-term trends in vocational education and training inBut privatisation had increasingly resulted in out-sourcing to for-profit providers, sometimes resulting in “appalling misuse of funds”.
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