Help for cancelled apprentices and trainees

If your apprenticeship or traineeship gets cancelled, we can help you:

• find another employer
• continue training (while you look for a new employer)
• start a new apprenticeship or traineeship.

Find another employer

Job matching service

Register with Trade Apprentices, a free job matching service for out-of-trade apprentices.

To be eligible for this service, you must be a Queensland apprentice whose training contract has been cancelled.

General job seeking advice

Ways to search for a new employer include:

• directly by contacting local businesses
• using your personal networks-ask friends, colleagues, parents and relatives
• contacting local TAFEs and other training organisations
• contacting a group training organisation.

Once you have found an employer, you can recommence your apprenticeship or traineeship.

Financial assistance to keep training

Even if your apprenticeship or traineeship gets cancelled, your training doesn't have to stop.

If your training was funded by us (via the User Choice program), we can help pay for continued training while you look for a new job.

You'll need to apply for this training assistance before continuing your training.

Check your eligibility

You are eligible for training assistance if:

• you live in Queensland
• and
• either
  • you were a part-time or full-time Queensland apprentice or trainee
  • you were a Queensland school-based apprentice or trainee, who is no longer enrolled in a school or alternative schooling arrangement
• and
• the proposed training commences within 12 months of the date of effect of cancellation of the cancelled training contract.

Because there is more criteria about funding and timing, we recommend you contact your training organisation or us, via Apprenticeships Info to discuss your eligibility.

How to apply for training assistance

1. Check the eligibility criteria above.
2. Choose a training organisation who is funded by the User Choice program (you can keep your original training organisation or change to a new one).
3. Fill out sections A and C of Form ATF-015.

Form ATF-015 Training assistance for cancelled apprentices and trainees (PDF)

4. Get your training organisation to fill out section B of the form.
5. If you are registered as a job seeker with Centrelink, get them to fill out section C.
6. Send your completed form to apprenticeshipsinfo@qld.gov.au with a subject heading of 'Training assistance for cancelled apprentice/trainee'.

Start a new apprenticeship or traineeship

To start another apprenticeship or traineeship, you can:

• continue an apprenticeship or traineeship in the same occupation (with a new employer and training contract)
• or
• start a new apprenticeship or traineeship in a different occupation (with a new employer and training contract).

Note: If your new apprenticeship or traineeship is in a similar occupation to your cancelled one, you may be eligible for credit transfer.