New figures show apprentice shortages in Queensland are worsening at an alarming rate. 

The state government has failed to deliver its promised thirteen thousand apprentices and the major shortfall is hurting a wide variety of industries including food, beauty and construction.

Shadow Minister for Employment and Training Brent Mickelberg says, “This chronic shortfall in apprenticeships shows the State Government is losing control of skills programs and preventing people the opportunity of learning a trade”