Employers
What is Group Employment?
Who can use Group Employment?
How does Group Employment work?
Group Employment has many advantages
Key features
What is Group Employment?
The national network of over 120 Group Employment Organisations around Australia now employs over 40,000 apprentices and trainees – it’s the largest employer of apprentices and trainees in Australia.
Group Employment is the easiest way to take on apprentices and trainees. With Group Employment, you get all the advantages of carefully selected apprentices and trainees, short or long-term, without the hassle of paperwork and payroll.
Who can use Group Employment?
Any business can use Group Employment to employ their apprentices or trainees because Group Employment is active in just about every industry – construction, financial services, manufacturing, retail, health, automotive, and hospitality, to name just a few.
How does Group Employment work?
NGT Tasmania is a major Tasmanian employer of apprentices and trainees across a wide range of industries, including:
- traditional trades
- hospitality
- business
- financial services
- retail
- transport and distribution
- health services
We employ apprentices and trainees and then place them with your organisation. We take care of the paperwork for wages, allowances, workers compensation, superannuation etc, while you allow time off to attend any off-the-job training that may be required. And your NGT Coach is there throughout the period of the apprenticeship or traineeship, to make sure everything runs smoothly.
Our apprentices and trainees are hosted by employers for the duration of their Australian Apprenticeship. Host organisations are invoiced weekly, on a 'per hour' basis, for the actual hours the Australian Apprentice is on the job.
The hourly charge out rate is based on productive hours worked and covers the following:
- Wages
- Workers Compensation
- Superannuation
- Annual Leave (incl. Leave Loading)
- Sick Leave
- Administration Costs
- Pre-Employment Medical
- Training Co-ordination and Fees
- Workplace OH&S Review and Education
Group Employment has many advantages …….
- No payroll administration demands – we process the payroll for our Australian Apprentices
- Fewer industrial relations demands – we manage any industrial issues relating to our Australian Apprentices
- Fewer staff management demands – we manage any performance and/or development needs relating to our Australian Apprentices
- Fewer training administration demands – we coordinate the delivery and assessment of training – in partnership with you
- Access to our experience and knowledge – we are a resource for your business. We know a great deal about working with apprentices and trainees across a vast range of qualifications and industries
- Access to our support services – we have a “treasure trove” of value-adding services available
Let NGT Tasmania take care of the detail while you take care of business
Other key features of our Group Employment services
- Payment options – a range of options including weekly direct debit or credit card
- Industrial arrangements – your hosted Australian Apprentice is subject to the Workplace Relations Act and regulations and will be covered either by a preserved state award or agreement or by an Australian Workplace Agreement
- Employee Pay Arrangements - NGT Tasmania pays wages directly into the employee's bank account. Timesheets are completed and signed by the Australian Apprentice and counter-signed by you, the Host Employer
- Overtime and Rostered Days Off - Employees can be required to work a reasonable amount of overtime
- Pay As You Go Withholding Tax - NGT Tasmania as the legal employer pays tax to the Taxation Office and issues PAYG Payment Summaries (Group Certificates) to the Australian Apprentice
- Leave Entitlements - Australian Apprentices are entitled to leave provisions as defined under the relevant award or agreement including, annual leave, sick leave, parental leave, personal/carers leave etc.
- Training - Each Australian Apprentice has a nominated training provider. This may be NGT Tasmania or it may be another provider such as TAFE. Depending on the industry, the training may be delivered off the job, on the job, or through a combination of both. Wherever possible, the training will be coordinated and delivered to suit your business requirements
- Toolkits - If required our Australian Apprentices may obtain a tool kit through NGT Tasmania, and arrange a repayment plan. This, however, is not an automatic entitlement
- Occupational Health and Safety - An Occupational Health and Safety Agreement, which identifies both the Host's and NGT Tasmania's responsibilities, forms part of our contractual obligations
- Safety Requirements and Protective Clothing - Our Australian Apprentices are provided with standard protective clothing, where required. It is the host employer's responsibility to provide protective clothing for particular work environments
- Workers Compensation – NGT Tasmania works in partnership with our Host Employers to help us meet our legal obligations under workers compensation
