In order for a request for time to train to be a valid request, covered by the legislation, it must be submitted in writing and contain the following information:
Employees can submit requests in any written form they choose as long as they contain the above information. You may want to provide your employees with a form or template of your own.
You are only required to consider one request from an employee in any twelve month period unless your employee has requested that you ignore an earlier request.
If one of your employees submits more than one request in a given 12 month period, it would be good practice to inform them within 28 days if you do not intend to consider it.
This is only applicable to England, Scotland and Wales. The information is not relevant to businesses in Northern Ireland.
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