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As expected, 2023 has kicked off with a bang in the apprentice space with inductions of new apprentices across the contracting, rail, transmission and supply industries, occurring in numbers we haven’t seen in many years, this is great to see Welcome aboard to all the new ETU apprentice members receiving the journal for the first time!

With the uptick in work, we ’ ve also seen a lot of existing apprentices switching employers This has brought some issues to the surface regarding profiling

I’ve come across a number of employers getting spiteful and refusing to approve profiling once the apprentice has pulled the pin If this is happening to you, please get in touch as there are a number of ways we can rectify it This is also a good reminder for apprentices to ensure they keep their profiling up to date and accurate so that their employer has less of an opportunity to try to do you out of your hard worked hours

Industrially, there is a lot going on this year for apprentices

We’re about to begin bargaining with MRAEL for their Black Coal Industry EBA and at the end of this year we’ll be looking at the renegotiation of the Electrogroup Apprentice EBA

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