EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AND LIFELONG LEARNING
B&ES recognises that,in people-intensive businesses such as contracting, the most successful organisations are those that have a coherent people management strategy and access to a skilled and adaptable workforce.
The Association is committed to ensuring the development of appropriate skills and competences to satisfy the short and long-term needs of the industry, to the maintenance of an adequate skills pool across the building services engineering sector.
In its distinct but closely associated role as an employers’ organisation, B&ES can implant changes in working practices, and is committed to reforming and reshaping the industry’s industrial relations landscape.
In line with these commitments, B&ES will seek to ensure that:
- training provision and vocational qualifications are matched to employer and industry needs;
- there is an adequate level of new-entrant training and recruitment, along with a lifelong learning culture which can ensure that skills levels are maintained throughout the workforce;
- the business case for training is understood by all stakeholders;
- an integrated building services engineering approach is adopted to employment relations;
- new technologies and new working practices can be accommodated in an integrated building services engineering context;
- employers are able to adjust their employment practices in line with the emerging requirements of the marketplace.
