Retrenched Workers Training Program
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Description
The NSW Department of Education and Training provides training assistance for retrenched workers affected by business closures and downsizing. The assistance covers a range of services from information and advice to skills assessment and gap training to full training qualifications.
The Retrenched Workers Training Program is funded under the SSP funding model.
Purpose
To respond quickly and effectively with targeted training options that will assist retrenched workers to regain employment. This may involve minimal training to gain relevant skills for a specific job or more extensive training to obtain a full qualification for a new career.
Program content for businesses and individual
The Retrenched Workers Program provides a range of services to assist businesses and their employees to better manage the structural transition that occurs when a business is required to downsize or close.
- Information and Advice
- Skills Assessment and Recognition of Prior Learning
- Skills Training
- Apprentices and Trainees
- Helping Business at Risk
Who can deliver training
The Retrenched Workers Program is funded under the Strategic Skills Program funding model. Only registered training organisations with an Approved Providers List (APL) Contract for the NSW Training Market for the Strategic Skills Program can deliver training.
Businesses
Where a large business closes or significantly downsizes the NSW Government may convene a Rapid Response Team (RRT). In this instance the local State Training Services Centre and the RRT committee will work with RTOs to develop a training program based on reemployment for the retrenched workers.
Individuals
From time to time individuals who have been retrenched due to the economic downturn will require one-on-one assistance to identify training relevant to reemployment. The local State Training Services Centre will negotiate the appropriate response with an RTO and the individual.
Participant eligibility
To be able to enrol in training purchased through the Retrenched Workers Program, participants must have a letter of retrenchment or similar documentation and have been retrenched after January 1, 2009.
The application process
Businesses or individuals who feel they are eligible for training under the Retrenched Workers Program should discuss with the local State Training Services Centre and/or a local RTO.
