23/06/2008
The government has reassured employers they will not be required to pay workers who they grant long periods of training to. Skills minister, David Lammy, explained a new system, which could come into effect from 2010, will still give bosses the option to turn down training requests. "Employers would not be obliged to pay an employees' salary while they were undertaking training, or to organise or pay for the training, but we would expect many to choose to do so," he told Personnel Today. The new initiative will allow workers to request training after only six months in their new job. Mr Lammy explained that employers who believed they had a good business reason to deny training or where it would not improve business performance could reject workers' requests. Despite a recent increase in the number of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance, national statistics show the trend in the employment rate is increasing.
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