The Government is working with the TUC and CBI to take forward a commitment to develop best practice concerning workplace dialogue on training and skills. This commitment was made last year in the DTI report, Success at Work: protecting vulnerable workers, supporting good employers (available on the DTI website at: http://www.dti.gov.uk/files/file27469.pdf).
Although the Government has ruled out, for the time being, making training one of the collective bargaining issue in the statutory recognition procedure, it is committed to work with stakeholders to develop best practice in this area. As such, a joint initiative between the CBI, TUC, DfES and DTI is now under way and is summarised below.
Launched in May 2007, the joint project will produce best practice guidance, helping employers, employees and trade unions develop workplace dialogue on training and skills. The four parties aim to publish the guidance in autumn 2007, after assembling evidence from a range of other organisations and experts.
This project is important because an effective training and skills strategy is central to lasting business success and workforce development. An effective strategy rarely works in practice without fully engaging the workforce and its representatives in its design and delivery.
For more information about this project or if you have information such as case studies which you believe the project group should consider, please contact the ACM office.
