Are fast-track plumbing courses just money down the drain?
2) Top-level review ordered into sacking of whistle-blower 3) New right to request time for training comes into effect 4) Stress in the workplace: Britain’s 26bn epidemic 5) HBOS manager loses sexual harassment claim 6) Eversheds to fight employment tribunal bias ruling 7) Bullying did not apply to PwC partner 8) Pension scheme membership declines, ONS says 9) Private sector wages outrun by price rises 10) Rise of the underemployed: more than 1m forced to take part-time work Are fast-track plumbing courses just money down the drain? Unemployed people, desperate for new jobs in a tough market, are paying thousands for short courses in plumbing only to find they still can’t get work. Plumbing work can be hard to come by with a basic City & Guilds 6129 qualification. Private training companies are encouraging unemployed people to borrow thousands of pounds for fast-track plumbing courses which are of little use in the present jobs market. Companies tell potential trainees they can become
