Backing sought for training of teenagers

Monday 21st February 2011, 3:00PM GMT.

Trainee Ronnie Khan with Alex Morel of ALX Training Picture: ROB CURRIE (01151430)

MORE employers are being urged to offer work placements to unemployed teenagers undertaking a States-backed training scheme.

And a plea has gone out to sole traders and small businesses in particular to take on trainees aged from 16 to19 from the Advance to Work scheme.

The organisers of the programme, Skills Jersey, say that it does not cost the employer a penny to have a trainee work for their business for up to three months.

Part of Skills Jersey is the Skills Board, and that body’s chairman, Richard Plaster, said that even the smallest of Jersey’s 6,000 businesses could benefit from having trainees.

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Tim

February 21, 2011 at 6:33 pm

Why don’t they just start asking people not born in Jersey and working here to leave?

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Jon

February 21, 2011 at 9:17 pm

Great idea Tim a similar solution was used by the Occupying forces in 1942 !

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HasBean

February 21, 2011 at 10:49 pm

For any government to address the needs and problems of the people, they have to look at the issues that affect and blight all or as many as possible of them.

In other words, as laudable as it may be to help younger people attain skills and get jobs, what about the over 40′s (locals and all others) who find themselves out of work and on benefits?

Are they to be written off as unemployable? If their needs aren’t even looked at, then what sort of government do we have?

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Sensible

February 22, 2011 at 9:04 am

Well said Jon!

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Hadrian

February 22, 2011 at 11:05 am

Tim 1

Congratulations on making the first comment xenophobic, but to be honest every story on these boards seems to create these shallow minded comments

Lets hope you retort is on the lines of “lets get rid of finance and bring back tourism”

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Overpopulated

February 22, 2011 at 5:09 pm

Constant immigration of low wage earners has caused and continues to cause many of the island’s problems. Low skilled locals have their wages forced down – great for employers – not so good for the workers or our overgenerous benefit system.

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