LEARNING AT WORK

Early day motion 185, tabled 24 May 2005 by Jim Cousins (Labour). Signed by 1 member.

That this House congratulates the 100,000 people who accessed learning at work last year via their trade union learning rep, and the union learning reps who do such a valuable job of assisting them; further congratulates the Labour Government for the extension of the Union Learning Fund which is providing excellent value for money by enabling unions to reach out to those most in need of acquiring skills; and calls on the Government to investigate ways in which union learning reps can do more to help people with low level skills, particularly in those companies which refuse to work with union learning reps, by looking to make statutory provision for workplace learning committees to ensure that employers work with union learning reps in a similar way to which they work with health and safety reps on statutory health and safety committees.

Signatures by party: Labour 1.