PO Box 12-126
Wellington 6144 
Tel: 0800 88 00 99
Fax: (04) 801 6027 
Email: info@retailmeat.org.nz  

What is involved in training?
On the job:
  • Employers receive information from RMITO to help train and prepare their apprentice for the assessments of their theory and practical skills.  

  • A RMITO training advisor visits the apprentice in their workplace and assesses their skills

  • Once the trainee has achieved all the units required for the National Certificate, they are qualified as a retail butcher.

  • The length of time that is required to complete a level 4 national certificate in retail butchery is approximately 3 years.

Off the job:

  • In each year of training there is a two or three-day off-job training course.

  • Every apprentice is required to attend the off-job training courses specified in their training programme to complete their training.

  • The employer releases the apprentice from work on full pay so that they may attend the off-job training course. This time is not to be taken as annual holidays.