Training scheme ‘waste of money’
PA Hamilton New training assistance programmes are a waste of money, says the president of the Waikato Unemployed Workers’ Rights Union, Mr Joe Jones. Courses offered were too short and too limited to equip people for employment, he said. He was commenting on a statement by the Labour Department which said the new scheme, the training assistance programme, would provide job seekers with skills likely to gain them full employment. Mr Jones said the scheme — which runs from four weeks to 20 weeks — gave trainees “time to learn a little bit of everything and know nothing.” He suggested training for work that was needed,
such as budders for fruit farms, and courses for people who could not read or write.
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Press, 8 February 1986, Page 4
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125Training scheme ‘waste of money’ Press, 8 February 1986, Page 4
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