On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 1:15:59 PM UTC, Robin wrote:

I know that they need to be overseen but they must be doing some
useful work during that period

But from the employer's point of view you need to subtract from the
value of the work they do the cost of telling/supervising/checking up on
them - especially the cost of the time of their "masters".

and generally the company is worse off with the apprentice than without. Newbies take several times as long to do jobs, screw them up routinely, and generally waste time in as many ways as possible. You cant just leave them to it.


NT