Why would a non-training levy do that, it could straightaway get employers to provide more training positions...

Who exactly do Clement and business representatives think they're fooling here? You can clearly see from the development of available training positions that the economy has no interest in providing training at all.

Of course, afterwards there's more complaining that qualified employees are lacking and that they need to bring in Indians or whoever via green cards to have qualified staff. They'll get screwed over just the same and can then meet up with the unemployed youth without training down at the train station...

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.