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AN APPRENTICESHIP levy on businesses introduced by the government to encourage employers to take on trainees has backfired and is undermining apprentice training schemes, a new report warned today.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and the Youth Futures Foundation report says the scheme gives employers an incentive to “rebadge” existing staff training as “apprenticeships” so they can claim money to pay for them.
They conducted a survey of more than 2,000 organisations about the levy and found “worrying unintended consequences,” including employers using existing training schemes to draw money.
TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK tells Ben Chacko that Labour can win back disillusioned voters by delivering workplace reforms, rebuilding trust and challenging the far right’s growing influence
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP