Stakeholders are wondering what's next after the Manitoba government announced it will be knocking down the number of apprentices that can be assigned to a journeyperson with a new apprenticeship ratio.“Our members literally had ample and robust discussions about appropriate ratios in the industry, and settled on the 2:1,” he said. “Frankly, the industry was OK with that.
“If you have five journeypersons currently, you can have up to 10 apprentices. If the rules change, which we anticipate they will, it’ll get rolled back to five. So five of those apprentices will have to find something else to do,” he said.4 Ontario school boards sue Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok
Jamie Moses, the minister of economic development, investment, trade and natural resources, said “We’re still going to continue to grow our skilled trades.”“We know that’s an important area to grow in our workforce, and we’re going to do that by investing in training seats,” he said. He said the hope of the ratio reduction is to “encourage people to go into the skilled trades by ensuring that it’s going to be high-quality and ensure that it’s very safe.”“Over the past few years, we’ve had a number of programs in place that have allowed us to hire apprentices — especially new and first-level apprentices — to get them into the trade,” he said.