Engagement of apprentices. (a) The Parties commit to their ongoing responsibility to contribute to the training of new tradespersons for the building and construction industry.
Engagement of apprentices. ENERGEX will maintain in the Technical Stream an average minimum number of 280 apprentices during the life of the agreement. Following the nominal expiry date of this agreement, 21 November 2014, Energex will continue to engage a number of suitable persons (internal or external persons), into apprentice positions, in accordance with the business needs of Energex. The number of persons to be engaged as apprentices will be 32 per annum. For the life of this Agreement ENERGEX will: