Research shows that across the UK workforce around one employee in every five has problems with basic literacy and numeracy. That's bad news for employees as it means they lack the skills to secure promotion or benefit from training. It's bad news for employers because it means their staff are not able to do their best for the business. And above all is bad news for passengers as the lack of basic skills means employees may not be delivering the service they expect.
That's why, in partnership with the RMT, ASLEF and the TSSA, Southeastern has taken a major step towards improving literacy and numeracy and raising skill and qualification levels among our 3,900 strong workforce.
The Skills Pledge is an opportunity for businesses or organisations to show publicly the importance they place on investing in the skills of their people. It is a commitment to support all our employees to develop their basic skills, including literacy and numeracy, and work towards relevant, valuable qualifications to at least Level 2 (equivalent to five good GCSEs). The purpose is to ensure that all employees are skilled, competent and able to make a full contribution to the success of our company.
Last Friday 5 December 2008, Andy Bindon, HR director officially launched Southeastern's commitment to the Skills Pledge at The Red Star Learning Centre in Chatham on Friday morning. He paid tribute to the commitment and hard work the trades unions have put into both employee development and the Skills Pledge.
No comments:
Post a Comment