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BUSINESSES in Burnley could benefit from a £6m.
boost for an innovative new programme.
 The Employer Training Pilot is being funded and co-ordinated by Lancashire's Learning and Skills Council and supported by Business Link. Its aim is to improve workers' skills by offering heavily-subsidised training for businesses at NVQ Level 2. The scheme will also provide employers with financial help towards the costs of staff while they are training. It is hoped it will see benefits by offering staff job-related training, as well as boosting numeracy and literacy skills, and offering English courses for speakers of other languages. Eight specialists will help deliver the programme to more than 3,500 employees across Lancashire, giving free advice to businesses. Welcoming the initiative as "fantastic news for both businesses and employees", Gwyneth Tuck, workforce development manager at Business Link in Lancashire, said: "Government research highlights the direct cost of training and associated costs of releasing staff from the workplace as major barriers to investing in workplace skills." Businesses in Lancashire with lower-skilled employees aged over 25 are eligible. For more information, contact 01772 790200.
The FSB has been calling for action for the last two years and is pleased that in speech today Lord Falconer, the Constitutional Affairs Secretary, committed the Government to combating the problem of frivolous claims. FSB National Chairman Carol Undy said: “The government is right to issue a final warning to claims farmers and should legislate if they fail to clean up their act. “Compensation is rightly paid where a person is injured as a result of someone else’s negligence, but frivolous litigation inspired by a US style blame culture is costing small businesses as well as other public bodies. Business owners feel under pressure to settle out of court even where the case against them is weak and the whole business community is suffering through inflated liability insurance premiums.” Carol Undy added: “Last year the FSB wrote to the Lord Chancellor to express concern about the tactics used by claims management companies to canvass for business. We called for these claim farmers to be placed under some sort of control and for the ASA to investigate their adverts on television, radio and in the press.” The FSB is Britain''s biggest business organisation with 185,000 members. It exists to protect and promote the interests of the self employed, and all those who run their own business. |
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