Australian Apprenticeship Tools For Life Program

[some_cs_student]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has any info on how this works.

I was reading up on Best Tools for the Job on SAU unfortunately I don't know where to find cheap tools online. Ebay had a few reasonably priced ones from Kincrome

Anyway, is anyone familiar with the Australian Apprenticeship Tools for Life program?

It looks like the government will pay a fraction of a potential $3800 towards tools on occupations listed on the national skills register.

The skills register shows "mechanical services" on there, so I'm assuming that covers automotive mechanics.

Does anyone know how the payments work?

Are you only eligible if you buy the tools after you have started the apprenticeship?

Thanks,

Gareth

[Ruffels]

you get an $800 tool grant from the government, after 3 months of comensing your "skills shortage" apprenticeship, however it is in the form of a voucher, your boss has to sign for it and its only for tools that suit your specific trade, unless your boss is happy to pull a dodgy and sign for different tools

you are also given lump sums of money depostited dirrectly into your bank account at 6,12,18,24,36 month mark and also completion of your apprenticeship

[some_cs_student]

you are also given lump sums of money depostited dirrectly into your bank account at 6,12,18,24,36 month mark and also completion of your apprenticeship

Ok cool, so the lump sums could be spent on anything. But the $800 initial grant is just for tools that your boss sign's off on....thanks

[Do-Luck]

That's bullshit. I did it the hard way by paying for all my own tools, my own tafe fee's, and didn't get kickbacks twice a year

[KURAUN]

welcome to the world of 'harden the f**k up old kent'

[Omurru]

That's bullshit. I did it the hard way by paying for all my own tools, my own tafe fee's, and didn't get kickbacks twice a year

I know tell me about it! All the apprentices at work get this too, even the adult ones! What did I get? I got a second job doing nightfill!

[Ruffels]

damn i love getting handouts from the government for being an apprentice!!

[ylwgtr2]

i also think its disgusting that they get anything at all......take this into consideration....my former apprentice after many warnings for turning up late if at all,after over 20 paid sick days in 6 mnths so i give him the arse....then the people from the apprenticeship place rang me up to sign the form "so he can continue his schooling to get his papers without a job" so i say "how can he do this?" they say "well due to the hard economic times they can do this as there is not enough work around for them" i say "no economic crisis in my shop....im here til 12 everynight......so if he continues and get his papers....do i get my $2000 bonus when he gets his papers?????" they say "no he must be and employed at your place" i say "ok then....well dont bother contacting me as i refuse to participate in promoting bludging and i will never give anyone else an apprenticeship......and sign your own f**kin papers " and hung up

[NO-GTR]

free tools & cash bonuses FTW! it was nice to get some free cash from the bastards that take it all anyway (tax,fine etc.). it helps with the crap wage for 4 years and everthing being so dam expensive.

[Ruffels]

free tools & cash bonuses FTW! it was nice to get some free cash from the bastards that take it all anyway (tax,fine etc.). it helps with the crap wage for 4 years and everthing being so dam expensive.

crap wage???? where do you work, and what trade? .... i wouldnt say i'm on a crap wage by any means!

[alr33x]

its a joke apprentices get paid any bonuses everyone else works the way up through hard work or paying to go to university you get education and a wage shouldn't be complaining about anything.

not to mention how soft half the tradies are these days

[Do-Luck]

I'm not soft. I cut my hand open a few weeks ago, went to the quacks, had it stitched up, went back to work. Didn't take one day off

[NO-GTR]

oh i get payed well now im fourth year thou first year would have been better off on the dole. im a instrumention technition. plcs n shit. plus these days its hard for most young guys to keep a job! they need incentives

[FrangaR33]

LOL at the "Tools for life program"

[Ruffels]

its a joke apprentices get paid any bonuses everyone else works the way up through hard work or paying to go to university you get education and a wage shouldn't be complaining about anything.

not to mention how soft half the tradies are these days

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA @ you .... wow, so your RIEV course took you 1 week to complete, and you just call people asking if they wanna sell their hard earned properties, whilst you then F*** them around and then take a cool 1-2 % of the sale price!

jokes on you buddy, i work f**ken hard... and to what Do-luck said, i concur... i got my hand jammed between 240mm2 XLPE's and a large metal takeoff box during a mains pull down a 30 story building (so cables weighed hundreds of kilo's) the pressure alone burst my finger right open, off to the doctor, and back to work an hour later!

so i dont want to hear im soft from a paper pusher such as yourself!

[alr33x]

the joke would be in fact on YOU if what you said above is true, which its not. If you cant compile a decent reply that is worthwhile you may as well not bother. But enlighten me and everyone else why you are entitled to a bonus

Although you guys might be hard working i know plenty of tradies & engineers who have to put up with the majorities whinging. They built a fkn walk way out of containers so the workers on the west gate job wouldnt get rained on from the brew hut to the site? So while you might work hard a vast majority don't and are happy to admit it and openly admit they use the union and whatever other bs they'd like to come up with to not have to go to work. I for one have nothing much against tradespeople but if you cant look around and see your fellow tradespeople are like this then frankly you are blind.

the examples are endless whats is up with RDO? for what? nothing at all.

and just so you know whether you a soft or not its rather irrelevant you can work hard break ya back and be fckd by they time your 40 good for you im happy to do what im doing for much longer without the labor intensive work and get paid more than you. Ultimately sir the joke is on you in this scenario!

[battery]

the joke would be in fact on YOU if what you said above is true, which its not. If you cant compile a decent reply that is worthwhile you may as well not bother. But enlighten me and everyone else why you are entitled to a bonus

Although you guys might be hard working i know plenty of tradies & engineers who have to put up with the majorities whinging. They built a fkn walk way out of containers so the workers on the west gate job wouldnt get rained on from the brew hut to the site? So while you might work hard a vast majority don't and are happy to admit it and openly admit they use the union and whatever other bs they'd like to come up with to not have to go to work. I for one have nothing much against tradespeople but if you cant look around and see your fellow tradespeople are like this then frankly you are blind.

the examples are endless whats is up with RDO? for what? nothing at all.

and just so you know whether you a soft or not its rather irrelevant you can work hard break ya back and be fckd by they time your 40 good for you im happy to do what im doing for much longer without the labor intensive work and get paid more than you. Ultimately sir the joke is on you in this scenario!

WTF, why the hate?

what are you gonna sell when they are no new homes being built ...

the majority of 1st year apprentices will be lucky to clear $300 a week.... then your have to factor in the 10-12 hours days with no paid overtime and working in conditions which are far from comfortable.

this is why there is a shortage of trades people and this is what the "bonus incentives" are trying to correct....

im on an RDO today and its great so fark you.

[alr33x]

there is no hate at all i'm just asking, and passing on things i have been told from the horses mouth.

i have friends who are apprentices and who are fully qualified as well, yes the money sucks to start with but at the same time you are getting paid while you learn as opposed to say a lawyer who goes to university for 5 years or whatever it is and comes out with a 40k debt and has earnt less than 300p/w for the past 5-6 years. There is no bonuses along the way for them.

So dont mistake my comments for hate i just think that tradeys get more than a fair go these days and the tradespeople here are probably some of the best looked after in the world.

and i bet it it is great having an RDO but im just asking why are they given out? from what i'm told its not a day in lieu its simply a RDO every fortnight or month i'm not sure. Do you deserve that rdo? of course you will say yes. But hey everyone goes to work does over time and blah blah but they dont get paid RDO's. I could be wrong about this thats why im asking.

[Ruffels]

hahaha, you have a go at me , but you've got no idea either.... i work 40 hours a week, but i only get paid 36 hours a week, hence why every fortnight i get a paid day off. ive worked those hours, i then get them in lieu in the form of an rdo

[alr33x]

hence why i asked how it works, all my mates have told me they get RDO's for no reason, and they all get paid over time is that cos they are fully qualified?