Group Employment

Complete Apprenticeship and Traineeship Services (CATS) is a member of the Complete Personnel Group. Our Group Employment Service provides a simple, flexible and professional alternative for employing apprentices and trainees in your workplace.

How does Group Employment work?

As a Group Training Organisation we recruit and employ the apprentice or trainee, and then hire them to ‘host employers’ for agreed periods of time.

This means that the apprentice or trainee works at the host employer’s business under the host employer’s direction for an apprenticeship or traineeship.

We regularly monitor the apprentice or trainee within the host employer’s workplace and provide support and counselling as required to manage workplace issues to ensure their success.

Host employers are invoiced weekly, on a 'per hour' basis, for the actual hours the apprentice or trainee is on the job.

What does the hourly charge rate cover?

Our charge rates are inclusive of the following direct costs:

  • Award wages
  • Public Holidays
  • Sick and carers leave
  • Annual Leave plus leave loading
  • Compassionate Leave
  • Superannuation Workers Compensation Levy
  • Payroll Taxation
  • Off-the-job training fees
  • Off-the-job training attendance

Other indirect costs and responsibilities covered:

  • The recruitment process including advertising, interviewing, ability tests, reference checking, medicals (where applicable). The Host Employer has the final say on the trainee accepted;
  • Professional Human Resource Management including performance management, unfair dismissal claims, Injury management and rehabilitation; Payroll Administration; Job Safety Risk Assessments of your work site.

The charge rate is payable for hours spent at the workplace. There is no charge when the trainee is absent for Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Public Holidays, Off-the-job training attendance and workers compensation.

The benefits of hosting an apprentice or trainee through CATS

Our Group Employment Service allows your business to benefit from having additional staff, without the hassles of directly employing someone. This means that you are free to focus on your business, while still having the choice of who works for you.

Cost effective

  • You only pay for productive hours;
  • Budgeting is much easier.

Paperwork free

We administer all the paperwork associated with employment and training. This means no:

  • Dealing with Government departments;
  • Maintaining personnel records;
  • Administering superannuation, payroll taxation,Workcover, ATO compliance.

Flexibility

  • No obligation to provide ongoing employment at the end of the new apprenticeship;
  • Part-time options available;
  • The ability to transfer the apprentice or trainee to your payroll at key milestones;
  • The ability to have an apprentice or trainee during peak workloads or for the duration of key contracts.

An ongoing support service for you and the apprentice or trainee

We provide a professional support service throughout the duration of the New Apprenticeship, including:

  • Mentoring of the apprentice or trainee to enhance job performance and productivity;
  • Maintaining contact with the training provider to monitor training progress. We also provide the host employer with training status reports;
  • Providing a specialist Indigenous mentoring service for the apprentice or trainee, and support for host employers.

Increased skills

  • The new apprentice receives nationally recognised training and qualifications;
  • Your business benefits from this training through improved productivity, new ideas and motivated employees.