Industry Training Fund

• • Restrictions on delivery
  • Overseas activity

Overseas activity

ITOs[1] must not use government funding to fund the setting of skill standards for, and the delivery of, industry-based training to trainees who are employed, and will receive the proposed training, outside of New Zealand (overseas trainees). 

We consider this to be counter to the intentions and purposes of the Industry Training Strategy. The Industry Training Fund is for the benefit of New Zealand industry trainees employed in New Zealand and receiving industry-based training at workplaces in New Zealand (see Rule ITO001[2]).

Overseas trainees are not eligible for industry training funding. Overseas trainees are trainees who are employed, and receive industry training, outside of New Zealand.

To avoid any doubt, eligible industry training trainees may access training outside of New Zealand for systematic training in skills characteristic of, or likely to be valuable to, a New Zealand industry provided the trainee is employed in that industry in New Zealand.

An ITO may become involved in the setting of skill standards for, and the delivery of, industry-based training of employees outside of New Zealand provided that all the following requirements are met:

• no government funding is used by that ITO for this activity
• the involvement is self-funded activity that is fully cost-recovered
• such activity does not interfere with the ITO setting skill standards for, and the delivery of, industry-based training to the employees and employers within its industry coverage.
  

• [1]

  Industry training organisations (ITOs)

• [2]

  Rule ITO001: Industry training - trainee eligibility

  To be an eligible trainee a person must be one of the following:

  • An employee, employed in New Zealand
  • A member of the New Zealand Defence Force
  • A volunteer who is in an arrangement with an organisation in New Zealand that is in the nature of employment and forms part of a command and control structure where the following apply:
    • clear contractual obligations between the parties
    • regular or rostered hours of duty
    • commitments to attend work on a regular or when required basis
    • the volunteer is subject to termination for unsatisfactory performance
  • A self employed contractor who has primary contractual relationships in New Zealand with an organisation, with clear contractual obligations between the parties for the provision of goods and services and payment, and in which the services of the contractor is fully committed to the organisation.