Implement the Australian Skills Guarantee, ensuring one in 10 workers on major Australian Government-funded projects is an apprentice, trainee or paid cadet.
The Government will provide $8.6 million over 4 years from 2023-24 (and $1.5 million per year ongoing) to implement the Australian Skills Guarantee, ensuring one in 10 workers on major Australian Government-funded projects is an apprentice, trainee or paid cadet. Employment and Workplace Relations | The Australian Skills Guarantee will apply from 1 July 2024 to projects with contracts valued at $10.0 million or more in the construction and information and communications technology sectors and will include sub-targets for women. More ambitious targets will be set for flagship construction projects with contracts valued at $100.0 million or more. For information and communications technology projects, initial targets for apprentices, trainees, paid cadets, and the targets for women will be negotiated with suppliers on a project-by-project basis, with targets based on workforce information provided during the tender process. The cost of this measure will be partially met from savings identified in the 2023-24 Budget measure titled Employment and Workplace Relations - reprioritisation. This measure builds on the 2022-23 October Budget measure titled Australian Skills Guarantee.