Over to you WESTERN ROADS FEDERATION by Cam Dumesny, CEO
The Skills Shortage and what's being done
T
he last few years we have all been struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic but as 2021 wore on, I realised there was another, much more serious pandemic that we are dealing with right across the world.
The Situation 1. The Western Australian Transport and Logistics industry continues to suffer a severe shortage of skilled staff from drivers, mechanics to operations personnel. 2. These shortages are directly contributing to economic impacts/ losses which are being reported daily in the media across multiple WA business sectors. 3. WA is beginning to approach the levels of COVID-19 case numbers that severely disrupted the supply chains on the East Coast.
HV Driver Training Program With record levels of low unemployment, we will have increasing difficulty attracting 16
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people to train in the extraordinarily successful HV Driver Training Course. Noting that we now have 87% of all graduate students in jobs and employers demanding more.
Actions Item Update Working with Employment Facilitators: We are developing a great relationship with Federal funded local employment facilitators to help identify and attract people into our
