NEWS - 15/05/2010
Do you know the law on training?
As new laws mean that employers must consider training requests from employees, we look at ways businesses can offer cost effective online training.
Since the start of the new financial year in April UK employees have been given the legal right to request training. The new legislation from the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, means that employers with 250 or more employees now have to seriously consider an eligible employee's formal request for time away in order to undertake training.
Within 28 days of receiving a valid request an employer must accept the request and inform the employee in writing or meet with the employee to discuss their request - and within 14 days of that meeting, inform the employee of a decision in writing. Crucially you may only refuse outright an employee's request for time to train for one of a set of specified business reasons.
The right to request will be extended to employees of all employers, including those businesses with less than 250 staff, from 6th April 2011. The training can either be accredited or unaccredited and it can be provided in the workplace, at home on their own or even abroad.
One of the most cost-effective ways a company can safe-guard their business against any potential increase in training costs, or loss of revenue due to staff absence on training programs, is to set-up an effective online elearning service for your company.
The demand for elearning services as a medium for training intervention is growing strongly and channel portal training and product knowledge elearning can have a significant benefit to your business.
As a training consultancy and eLearning solutions provider we work with clients to develop their own web based learning material and create it in an eLearning style and format that suits company brand values and budget.
Creating and delivering eLearning is an extremely effective way of providing targeted, powerful training in the most cost efficient way. Telephone: 01753 840 331. Email: info@growthengineering.co.uk