News: Performance Management
Temps at risk of skills gap through lack of training
23 November 2007
Temporary workers are at risk of falling behind their contemporaries because they do not receive so much training at work.
Underscoring the importance placed on in-house training such as contract law training and performance management training, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has argued that agency workers are often compromising their future prospects and facing a future skills gap.
"Many of the companies that agency workers are placed with do not value investing in training, so temps are far less likely to benefit from training than directly employed staff," a spokesman for the TUC said.
"As a result they are becoming trapped in a career of low paid and insecure work, the lack of training leaving agency workers in a weak position to move on to better paid, more secure work.
"With the majority of temps young people, women and older workers, the TUC fears that whole sectors of the workforce are being excluded from the training needed to help them into full-time permanent work."
