What wages does the employer have to pay for supervised training?
Under the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act 1999 all employers must pay their apprentices and trainees wages for participation in all supervised training, up to the maximum period required under the Vocational, Education, Training and Employment Act 2000 to be delivered by a supervising registered training organisation during the apprenticeship or traineeship. Additionally, the Industrial Relations Act 1999 states that supervised training is taken to be: • time worked for the employer; and • ordinary working hours when calculating the apprentice’s or trainee’s wages and employment conditions. Example: A trainee is required to work 38 ordinary hours a week under an award. In a particular week, the trainee spends 30 hours working for the employer and 10 hours undertaking supervised training. The trainee is entitled to be paid 38 hours ordinary time (which includes 10 hours ordinary time for the time spent undertaking supervised training) and 2 hours overtime. The supervising reg
