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Chapter 4 - Consultation Questions
Section 1: Your details
Please tick one box which best describes you as a respondent?
Employer | |
Employer organisation / representative body | |
Trade Union | |
Individual | |
Other - please specify | |
Section 2: Questions for employers or employer organisations only (if trade union, individual or other, please skip to Section 3)
How many employees do you have?
Less than 20 | |
21-49 | |
50-249 | |
250-999 | |
1000-4999 | |
5000 or more | |
Have you achieved, or are you working towards Investors in People status?
Section 3: General Questions
1. Could a request for time to train help skills development in your organisation?
Please give reasons for your answer in the box below
2. Do you think the right to request time to train should cover:
Any training that the individual and the employer agree | |
Only training that is nationally recognised and accredited | |
Please explain or comment on your answer in the box below
3. For which of the following reasons do you think an employer should be able to reject a request for time to train? (Please tick all of the reasons you think should be included)
Relevance of training to business productivity and performance | |
Suitable training is not available | |
Burden of additional costs | |
Detrimental effect on ability to meet customer demand | |
Inability to reorganise work among existing staff | |
Inability to recruit additional staff | |
Detrimental impact on quality | |
Detrimental impact on the performance | |
Insufficiency of work during the periods the employee proposes to work | |
Planned structural changes | |
None of the above | |
Please explain or comment on your answers to this question in the box below
4. Are there any other reasons you think employers should be able to cite in rejecting a request for time to train?
Please give details in the box below
5. Are there any circumstances in which an employer should be able to withdraw their support for an individual's time to train where they had previously granted a request?
Please give details in the box below
6. Do you think any employers should be exempted from the right to request time to train?
7. If you answered yes to question 6, which employers do you think should be exempt?
Employers with fewer than 25 employees | |
Employers with fewer than 250 employees | |
Another reason | |
Please specify in the box below
8. If you are an employee and had a formal right to request time to train, would you be more likely approach your employer about your training needs than you are now?
Please give reasons for your answer in the box below
9. If you are an employer and a statutory right to request time to train was introduced would this change your behaviour in terms of giving your staff time off to train?
Please give reasons for your answer in the box below
All respondents
Please use the box below for any other comments you wish to make about the proposed right to request time to train
How to respond
1. We welcome your views and comments on the proposal and a series of questions are set out in Chapter 3. Your responses can be submitted electronically to lynn.forsyth@scotland.gsi.gov.uk or in writing to Lynn Forsyth, Scottish Government, Europa Building, 450 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8LG. The closing date for responses is Friday 31 October 2008.
2. This consultation document is available electronically on the Scottish Government website, under the consultation section (insert link). If you are unable to access the document or would like it in a different format, please contact Lynn Forsyth on 0141 242 0215.
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