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News feature: Slash training at your peril warns coalition

By Elizabeth Eyre (December 2008 Issue)
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A coalition of public and private sector leaders has called on employers to keep investing in training during the recession.

In an open letter recently published in national newspapers, some of the country’s top businessmen joined forces with the unions and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills to make the plea on behalf of workplace L&D.

Sir Mike Rake, chairman of both BT Group and the UKCES, Mervyn Davies, chairman of Standard Chartered bank, Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Richard Lambert, director general of the Confederation of British Industry, and Sir Stuart Rose, chairman of both Business in the Community and Marks and Spencer, used the “open letter to all UK employers” to urge them to sustain and even increase investment in training.

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