Benefits

Now that you have invested significant time and money training up your qualified apprentice or trainee, you can reap benefits such as:

• lower recruitment costs
• less attrition (when staff leave but are not replaced)
• higher productivity (compared to a new employee)
• innovation
• improved work processes
• improved public image and reputation (for taking on apprentices and trainees).

Obligations

Once your employee has completed their apprenticeship or traineeship and is qualified:

• you can keep employing them, but you are not legally obliged to (unless they were a pre-existing employee to start with)
• you will need to increase their pay and entitlements.