About this Submission

The NSW Business Chamber (‘the Chamber’) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Review of the Australian Apprenticeships National Skills Needs List. 

In the 2019-20 Budget, the Commonwealth Government announced it would establish the Additional Identified Skills Shortage Payment (AISS) to boost existing incentives for areas of identified skills needs and to support up to 80,000 new apprentices over five years. In addition, the government announced it would introduce a new simplified and streamlined incentives program for employers of apprentices and trainees from 1 July 2020 – the Incentives for Australian Apprenticeships (IAA) program to replace the existing Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Program (AAIP).