What would you want in a draft Refrigeration Guild?
1. Set minimum rate pay structure for apprentices, engineer, technicians etc.
2. Provisional apprentices that can only remain untrained for 1 year then the employer must enrolled them on a training course. (This will force employers to train young people up to a standard useful for the industry)
3. If they do not pass this then the apprentice can't work unsupervised until successful
4. If a company has no qualified engineers then they must only take on qualified engineers to replace or expand the company unless they enroll at least one engineer on a course.
5. If a company has no qualified engineers then they must start training and have at least one qualified engineer within 6 years or be dropped from the guild
6.Companies that all engineers are fully trained can display the fact.
Training is only one aspect of what I would want to see in a guild worth being a part of.
7. Refrigeration courses should involve electrical installation to a level that would be expectable for installations back to the distribution board (this would help to claw back some ground lost to electricians who beat us to that part of the legislation)
I think the above will help to get the respect the industry deserves by an active training program without barring companies overnight from the guild due lack of skills
8.A minimum hourly charge out rate.
The idea of my post here is for it to be thought provoking about what you would want from a guild to improve the industry. If we don't talk about it now we may just have one dumped on us that helps only the few. If we come up with good ideas then this could be put forward when the time comes
The comments above may be tweaked deleted or added too. I think this thread needs a category of it's own under self-regulation or something and then broken down into sub threads of Training, legal requirements etc. Thrashing out each component from all perspectives until it can be to signed off into the draft.
Don't be negative about things if it can be improved say how. If don't work suggest something that might.