Workers may be given the right to request time
off for training, if a proposed regulation passes through parliament. The
initiative to build economic success through investment in skills
could see workers receiving more training as a result of the
regulation, which would come into force in 2010.
The entitlement would work in a similar way to flexible working,
in that workers who have been employed for a 26 week period or
more would be eligible. The training could be funded by
the employer, the employee, or the government, through their
Train to Gain scheme.
Employers would not be legally obliged to acquiesce to the requests
for time off to train, although there would be a requirement
for them to contextualise any refusal on justifiable business
grounds, demonstrating their reasons, such as the training not
actively boosting business performance.
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