If you work on a commercial construction site, your employer will provide Incolink with the number of days you work on these sites, or provide Incolink with redundancy contribution payments, if required under an Industrial Instrument. During your apprenticeship, if you are made redundant due to lack of work and you have worked on commercial construction sites, you may be entitled to make a redundancy claim.

If an apprentice becomes unemployed, they can claim their apprenticeship days as redundancy in the following situations:

1. An apprentice completes their apprenticeship, then completes 52 weeks within the commercial building industry, and their employer/s have paid 52 weeks redundancy contributions into Incolink during that period.
2. An apprentice who has not yet finished their apprenticeship is laid off due to a lack of work and there is no arrangement with their employer to re-employ them, and where the apprentice training agreement is cancelled.
3. An apprentice completes their apprenticeship, and is then laid off due to a lack of work within the next 52 weeks. There must be no arrangement with the employer to re-employ them.

To be eligible to have the days paid out as redundancy under situation A, the apprentice and the employer must complete and lodge an Initial Claim Form.

Under situations B and C, the apprentice and the employer are required to complete and lodge an Initial Claim form, the Application for Payment for Apprentice Credits claim form and provide the supporting paperwork.