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WHY COMPANIES FAIL TO TRAIN THEIR EMPLOYEES

period is one year if you started work before 06th April 2012). So despite a lack of training,
you would not be able to raise a legal case.
Assuming you do have the qualifying period of employment, regardless of whether you have
received suitable training or not, your employer would be expected to give you an
opportunity to improve and if necessary implement a performance improvement plan. At
least two written warnings should be given if a formal disciplinary route is instigated and you
should have the right to appeal a dismissal. A failure to follow this process can amount to
unfair dismissal and that's even before the lack of sufficient training argument is put forward.
Naturally a lack of management training is going to have a wider impact as the fallout will
filter down to the staff who report to that manager. The Department for Business Innovation
and Skills produced a report only recently highlighting that ineffective management is costing
the UK economy UK£19bn in lost working hours, and that 43% of managers rate their own
line manager as ineffective.
G4S and their lack recruiting and training of
staff are in the public eye because of the
huge importance of needing to get it right
for the Olympic Games. But day and in and
day out, other companies don't get it right
either. Remember, though, you do have
employment rights if your employers lazily
fail to properly train you.
Have you had experience of not being
properly trained or working for managers
who needs training themselves? I know I have!!!!!
My personal experiences in the past Has been that it is better to have less well trained,
above the average wage manpower, than more untrained national minimum wage
employees.

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