Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Howards IR: attack on apprentices

Employees in NSW could lose protection from covert surveillance at work and state laws outlining how apprentices may be treated will be overridden, the release of regulations reveal.

Responding to the changes, the deputy director of Sydney University's Industrial Relations Research Centre, John Buchanan, has warned that scrapping state apprenticeship laws will worsen the skills shortage.

"One of the real reasons for skills shortages has been the collapse of quality on-the-job training," he said.

"These changes are going to strip even more quality out of the training system. They go in the complete opposite direction to what is required."

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