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JTL calls for employers to hire new apprentices following the Chancellor’s Plan for Jobs
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ovid-19 has had a devastating impact on those employed in the UK, and with the Prime Minister highlighting the
unfortunate fact that young people have been hardest hit, leading training provider JTL is encouraging employers to harness the new government funding initiative and hire new apprentices now. During the delivery of the summer statement, the Chancellor provided further detail on the government’s Plan for Jobs to tackle unemployment post Covid-19. The statement included a number of new initiatives, offering funding incentives and schemes aimed at helping young people. JTL believes that the funding now accessible to employers will have a hugely positive impact on businesses being able to make the most of the resources and skilled labour available to them, and in turn further support the country’s economic recovery. Data from the Department of Education reveals that employer vacancies for apprentices in April and May 2020 were 2,020 and 1,850, which compares to 10,400 and 12,580 in the same months of 2019, respectively. With this in mind, and taking into account that the industry was already facing a skills shortage, JTL wants to encourage and support employers to utilise the funding now available to them and to take on the next generation of skilled tradespeople. Caroline Turner, director of policy and external relations at JTL, comments: “Data reveals that there has been a significant 85% drop in apprenticeship vacancies. Although this is an exceptionally dismal statistic, it is reassuring that the government is now willing to support
Panasonic partners with Kooltech
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anasonic has partnered with Kooltech, one of the UK’s largest independently owned distributors of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning products, to its distribution network. Kooltech will now distribute Panasonic’s full range of commercial refrigeration CO2
Condensing Units from its seven
branches across the UK. Paul Taylor, UK sales manager explained: “We are delighted to welcome Kooltech on board as a UK distributor of our Cold Chain CO2
Condensing
apprenticeships and invest sizably to encourage employers to take on more apprentices. We believe the new government initiatives are an important landmark for both traineeships and apprenticeships and will play an important role in the UK’s recovery effort.
“This is the optimum time for employers to
harness the new funding and take on apprentices to further support their individual business, as well as helping the wider Covid-19 economic recovery plan. As part of JTL’s support offering and to ensure the pipeline of skilled tradespeople continues, we are on-hand to speak to employers who are keen to invest in the training and development of an apprentice, and to help employers make the most of the government financial assistance available to them.”
Units. The company has a large, knowledgeable team, who are skilled in energy saving solutions. Their reach will help us satisfy customer demand for new solutions in the changing world of refrigeration and to help futureproof businesses within the retail and cold chain sectors.” Eddie Mills, national marketing and positioning manager for Kooltech commented: “With new F-Gas regulations coming into force and with specifiers and installers being more aware of the greener alternatives, we are seeing an increase in customer demand shifting towards more natural refrigerants such as CO2
for their refrigeration needs.
“We are delighted to now be working with Panasonic and to be able to offer our customers a CO2 solution for their refrigeration applications.” The team at Kooltech are completing a detailed
and the installation of the Panasonic commercial refrigeration units via Microsoft Teams, with the experts at Panasonic.
training plan with Panasonic in the new CO2 condensing unit product range. Over the coming months, they will be inviting contractors to attend further virtual training sessions in the use of CO2
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