Bracks Government Creating Job Opportunities for Brunswick

This is part of the Bracks Government’s $24 million Workforce Participation Partnerships program, which matches job seekers facing barriers with jobs in areas experiencing skills and labour shortages.

This project will create great opportunities for local outworkers while helping fill the shortages that exist in the textile and fashion industry.

After their training, participants will be helped into work experience placements with employers, with a view to fulltime employment.

The project would be led by the Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia and had support from training providers, government, employers and unions.

In Parliament recently, I called for action to give outworkers in my electorate more skills so they were available to work as skilled labour in the clothing industry in Melbourne.

This project will do just that and it gives me great pleasure to announce this funding.

The Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs, Jacinta Allan, has approved more than 54 Workforce Participation Partnerships projects across the State. These are projects developed by talking to local employers, and are run by local partnerships that bring together industry, local government, training providers, employment services, community organisations, unions and employers.

Funding is flexible and can be used for traineeships, apprenticeships, mentoring and other support, such as short-term rental or transport assistance.