A franchisee who operates three Ultra Tune car servicing workshops has been indefinitely banned from hiring trainees or apprentices after two employees were left unsupervised while he travelled interstate on holiday.

The South Australian Skills Commission attended one of the businesses owned by sole trader Scott Thornton for an unannounced workplace inspection in November last year, and discovered the two apprentices were working without supervision.

The commission has now declared Mr Thornton a "prohibited employer" under the SA Skills Act following the "serious breach" of his obligations for "having repeatedly failed to provide adequate training or supervision for their apprentices".

Commissioner Cameron Baker said Mr Thornton's behaviour was "some of the most extreme conduct I have s

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