Hi faz thanks for your objective reply.
And I think A is ethe most applicable defition to working for free as thats what a starter needs to obtain to be up to par to being relied upon to work as an unlicensed mechanic.
I rightly or wrongly didn't mean working as a mechanic that does shifts and stuff and gets a responsibility dumped on him for free!
What I meant about free is a basic training at the basics of work that qualify the apprentice to be a mechanic.
And this sort of experience which is the basic training does count in a CV so it would be rather helpful for him if he does this sort of work for the required amount of time to validating his A license for free.
I fail to see hows letting people do thier job training for free to match the hands-on requirments of thier basic training downgrading the industry!