Aircraft Worker 1 is an employee who isundertaking up to 38 hours induction training.
$672.70 + supa
$692.10 after 3 months
Most apprentices now are adult or months away, from that after year 12.
Min starting pay $626.64 + supa and from memory the trade school wanted them for 13 weeks a year.
So why pay 13 weeks ($8,146.32) over a year, when if you pay $65.46 a week extra ($3,403.92 a year) you get 13 weeks extra labour?
By the bureaucrats this (an apprentice term 4 years), the house has bolted.
It then takes government incentives to start the cycle all over again, but to fill the gap we need 457 type workers.
They will come for 2 reasons LOT's $$$ for a shortish term
or
A reasonably affordable salary with the option to stay permanently with their family.
The people that think we can turn on and off our requirement to fill our self made skills shortages are dreaming because we don't pay large expatriate wages.
** Kelly the problem with your mining boom training ramp up is that bubble burst about 2 years ago, so in 2 years time the newly trained will be released into an already depressed market.