Grill’d has sought to keep secret the details of the $16.6 million in taxpayer funds it received to subsidise the wages of 2800 traineeships, amid figures showing a dropout rate for hospitality qualifications at close to 40 per cent.
Hospitality and retail certificate III qualifications – which were the third and forth most claimed subsidy – have, so far, recorded the highest cancellation or withdrawals. Almost 40 per cent of trainees who commenced a certificate III in hospitality dropped out, while in retail the rate was about 30 per cent.
According to the Department of Employment, a lag in reporting meant the final figures could be much higher, raising fresh questions about the efficacy of the multibillion-dollar scheme, though in the documents the department said it was “too early” to determine whether the wage subsidy had been effective.
Mr O’Connor added that Labor would focus on priority occupations, which does not include hospitality and retail qualifications. Some cancellations or withdrawals can also be associated with people moving from one workplace to another while still completing the same qualification. This is particularly the case among trade apprenticeships.Certificates required to become electricians and carpenters were the most popular qualifications by places funded, and total taxpayer dollars spent.
“The existence of traineeship schemes of questionable merit shouldn’t be used as a way of unfairly suppressing wages,” United Workers Union director Godfrey Moase said in July.
That’s is not good, the food is expensive and they still have the lack of shame to bludge off taxpayers. Ciao grill’d
I’m sorry, you need to be formally educated in how to put together a hamburger? Don’t you just learn on the job by watching someone?
tax funded hamburger training? is it a joke? more like a scam