17Conditions of training and employment for persons employed as apprentices and trainees

17 Conditions of training and employment for persons employed as apprentices and trainees

17 Conditions of training and employment for persons employed as apprentices and trainees

An employer that employs a person as an apprentice or trainee in a recognised trade vocation or recognised traineeship vocation—

(a) must provide work-based training in accordance with the relevant vocational training order for that vocation, and

(b) must employ the person under conditions no less favourable than those set by the provisions of the relevant industrial award or agreement,

whether or not an apprenticeship or traineeship has been established for the apprentice or trainee.