with the current skills shortage, especially among young unemployed people in Western Sydney, the small business peak body says.The peak body is looking for more support from the next governmentThe chair of the Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia Matthew Addison says that while the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the number of international workers coming into the country, it also saw a slowing in training locals.
According the Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force data for January, the unemployment rate remained at 3.5 per cent, while the youth rate was at 7.8 per cent. Organisations working in Western Sydney, including Wesley Mission, said parts of the region had double that rate, especially among jobseekers from a disadvantaged background.
"We have this real mismatch between the low unemployment rate nationally, but high rates of unemployed youth," Mr Addison said. "To engage unemployed youth in the small business sector, it needs a real willingness and ability to train them up over a period of time."Watch
Apprentice pay $21/hr… nice ⛺️ that’ll pay for.
Try living in Sydney without having 3mil in super.. impossible
Bro just bring back guilds and let the conversation between guilds, unions and regulation be very public.
Government need to stop paying people for doing nothing. Then they'll do the dirty shitty jobs that are apparently beneath them. What's all the talk about apprenticeships, this is low skill dirty hard work.
Makes a change from stories about disgruntled CBD café owners, I guess.
So he pays crap wages then....
petrol engine is on the way out Why do you learn mechanic when the job would be gone in a decade? EV training is better
A problem with this industry in particular is that it's in decline. Why get a trade certification in a declining industry? Good chance that apprentices now will be unemployed (in their trade) by age 40.
Now, can ABC do a full in-depth story exploring all the economic events that have led us to this point
City kids aren't interested in cars any more why would they want to be mechanics. All kids these days want to be you tubers and influencers.
You get what you pay for. Pay apprentices peanuts & treat them like discount labourers & get a skills shortage.
So he wanted pay inexperienced mechanics at a very low rate and found out that no one is interested
You really are just an extension of the LNP now. What a pi** weak story. Investment for success includes labour as well as capital.
Look. You tell me who wants to work super hard in trades for no money. Ask a polly to do it.
I know the economics of a dealership. You simply aren't paying them enough and then charge their labour at full retail. That is exploitation, and people are sick of it.
Well, maybe if Uni and cost of living weren’t so unaffordable that young people are jumping at the first job they can get…
How many apprenticeship are currently assigned to his company? Business owners must invest in their own industries for the future.
Who gutted TAFE?
I sympathise, but why would a young person invest their youth in learning how to change spark plugs. Within 5 years EV's will rule (even in Australia).
No one wants to work for a pittance anymore, wah!
Swings and roundabouts though. The young are going where the money is to make as much as possible while they can. They’ll come back home when the demand drops.
Even with petrol cars likely to be in service for years, possibly decades to come, how is this industry planning for reduced demand?
Who would still train to be a vehicle mechanic with the move to electric?
Poor thing having to actually work for money instead of paying apprentices $8 an hour
It’s what happens when TAFE and apprenticeships are gutted and all that V.E.T money redirected to “language colleges” and “international businesses schools” owned my donors and mates.
Labor are in Govt. Why was it the govt before but now its both parties?
More anecdotes but never an in depth analysis of neoclassical economics that have got us to this point. When do we get to talk about the false axioms our economy is ruled by? Heterodox might be better. DSGE might not be an equilibrium but a dynamical complex system. New ideas?
That’s because those overseas students that studied automotive subjects mostly got in the country to study uni degrees and jumped ship and prefer to work as security guards and Uber drivers because their only goal was to become PR
Kids are smart enough to know that there'll be a lot fewer ICEs to maintain in years to come
Business owners be like 'I have to actually turn up and do work at my own business' Parasite
For the last decade Apprentiships have been reduced & TAFE Colleges closed. Manufacturing industries gone. Companies importing cheap labour. The result is a skills shortage. All these business owners complaining have contributed.
This show has really gone downhill since Tracey Grimshaw left
Our kids on the dole. LABOR WINS. Cheap PERMANENT migrants. LABOR WINS. Labor's policy settings are to REPLACE YOUNG AUSTRALIANS AND CREATE MORE LABOR VOTERS. Straya...awesome.
Must be white supremacy.
How many young Australians can’t get apprenticeships? Give us those details
Wow look at the nudge gaslighting
WEF agent says...just bring migrants in. One world. Australia is no longer a country.
How about he try’s training people instead of looking for already skilled
hey come work for me $15/hr so I can go fishing during the week. Waahhh! No one wants to work!
It's crap money for crap work. Stay in school kids. Be a thinker, not a stinker.
Guy has to go back to earning his money
It's as if young people can't afford to live in Sydney because of the cost or something. I don't know 😕
Like most businesses nowadays, unwilling to train apprentices. He should have at least 2 running. When the first one gets to third or fourth year you start another first year. Constantly training new staff with your own skills. Trades have forgotten what apprenticeships are for
The costs of running a business make it uneconomic to pay staff anything more than min. wage. That's not the businesses fault. And with the gov. benefits young people get, why would they work 40+ hours for peanuts? That's not their fault. The gov. has created this situation.
Most youth are probably living with their mom and playing X box all day.
Why can’t business owners invest in their staff and ‘tackle skill shortages’ why is always the job of government?
No need to have junior Australians working. Bring in migrants. Half the cost, work far harder, won't complain. Go straya.
Simon probably pays insane rent on the property, so it's not viable to pay high wages. Solution? Bring in skilled migrants that can be exploited. Australia is in a death spiral, because MSM and politicians are treasonous. We are watching the end of the lucky country.
If the government and such are saying ICE cars will be a thing of the past in 20 years, why would anyone become a mechanic?
Start looking at conditions of employment for juniors
Inflation and high cost of living. If regular people are struggling, imagine how tough it is for junior mechanics!
Pay em better
Simon can't get cheap labour and is not willing to pay for adult workers
The younger generation is very disappointing