BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — It’s National Apprenticeship Week and Michigan Works! has collaborated with employers to highlight employees that are dedicated to their craft.
They aim to make the Michigan workforce stronger by providing workers on-the-job training to develop and retain talent in a creative way.
Apprenticeship programs are essential to reshaping the workforce. There’s a 94 percent retention rate that has been reported by the U.S. Department of Labor
Mark O’Reily, Director of Business Solutions at Michigan Works!, supports the vision of these programs that can range anywhere from 1-4 year programs to give apprentices real world experience and the chance for a significant pay increase.
“We would celebrate them all if we could but they all will finish at different times. But we would encourage people to stick at it, we know how hard it is, but the rewards at the end of an apprenticeship program are very …