Setting up apprenticeships

...compare with those for employees

Increased Government funding has brought apprenticeships back in to vogue. Employers going down this training route need to remember that there are significant differences in law between an apprentice and an employee.

An apprenticeship agreement must be recorded in writing, unlike a contract of employment that can come about via an oral agreement. And an employer cannot end the apprenticeship, for example, because of a downturn in work or a change in funding arrangements. If an apprenticeship is terminated prematurely, the apprentices could claim damages for loss of wages for the remainder of their apprenticeships, along with compensation for loss of training, opportunity and status, based on them being less employable for failing to complete their training.

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