Labour thinks 27,000 apprentices will benefit from the scheme by the end of the decade, up from 9000 last year. <\/p>\n
Apprenticeship Boost was originally introduced during the pandemic as a subsidy of $1000 a month for the first year of training an apprentice and $500 a month for the second year at a cost of $380.6m. That was later topped up when the programme was extended. <\/p>\n
The coalition Government scaled back the scheme to $500 a month for just one year and cut the number of sectors that could apply for the scheme. <\/p>\n
Labour made the announcement at its election year congress in Wellington. <\/p>\n
Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said: \u201cToo many young New Zealanders are struggling to find good jobs while our country faces growing skills shortages\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Labour introduced Apprenticeship Boost in 2020, it helped tens of thousands of apprentices get the training they needed for secure, well-paid careers. National cut that support to help fund tax breaks to tobacco companies and property speculators,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Hipkins later told media that the coalition\u2019s cuts to the scheme had reduced the number of women-dominated trades. These cuts inspired Labour to expand the scheme back to some of these trades. <\/p>\n
Labour tertiary education spokesperson Shanan Halbert said: \u201cNational pulled the rug out from under thousands of apprentices at a time when youth unemployment is soaring and businesses are crying out for skilled workers\u201d.<\/p>\n
The scheme will trigger at different times, with expanded eligibility to new trades beginning after a future Labour Government\u2019s first Budget on July 1, 2027. The expansion of the subsidy to two years would begin on July 1, 2028.<\/p>\n
The party is also promising the scheme\u2019s apprentices a start-up grant of $1000 from July 1, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour thinks 27,000 apprentices will benefit from the scheme by the end of the decade, up from 9000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35678,95,45607,186273,1568,74059,62155,15559,84021,3116,11598,44934,12252,20300,2082,738,249521,9858,5345,6721,111,43,139,12885,4061,69,2682,117812,1314,249520,3170,5076,12720,199,1361,61,21637,2766,376,379],"class_list":["post-499119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-additional","tag-and","tag-apprentices","tag-apprenticeships","tag-construction","tag-covered","tag-covidera","tag-elected","tag-eligibility","tag-employers","tag-expand","tag-expanding","tag-expands","tag-extending","tag-for","tag-funding","tag-hairdressers","tag-if","tag-increase","tag-labour","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-november","tag-number","tag-nz","tag-others","tag-promised","tag-road","tag-roadbuilders","tag-scheme","tag-subsidies","tag-subsidy","tag-take","tag-that","tag-to","tag-trades","tag-treatment","tag-water","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}