Employers will have to take more responsibility for ensuring staff are suitably skilled to handle the jobs they do by allowing employees to take the required time out of the work environment, says the Chancellor Gordon Brown.
The Chancellor has said after 2010 a new statutory entitlement to skills training may be required. He says: “There is an urgent need to make progress now and by consensus - so the Secretary for Education is today appointing the former Director-General of the CBI, Sir Digby Jones to advance an agenda of: employees taking more responsibility to train; employers taking more responsibility to offer time off, with in return more say over what training is provided; and government taking more responsibility to reform and invest in training provision at work, in colleges and online.” Meanwhil...
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