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Who should pay for CPC training?
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I WOULD LIKE to comment on Edward Pargeter's concerns over who pays for the forthcoming driver CPC training (CM 16 March).
The best advice I have obtained is that as the requirement to obtain a CPC has been introduced as an EL health and safety Directive, it will be a requirement of the employer to provide the training for its employees.
Under current employment law, it would be highly unlikely that an employer could make a current employee pay for a legally required health and safety training course.However.it may be the case that the employer could draft a contract of employment opting out of this requirement for new employees. But that approach would most likely be open to legal challenge.
Moreover, who would want to work for an employer who was reluctant to pay for the CPC? It will undoubtedly be the case that many employers will find it difficult to fund this training, and even fewer drivers will be willing.
As for the idea that the government will fund the training. the DSA (Driving Standards Agency) has already made it clear that the government does not see it as its role to train truck drivers.
So perhaps this is the time for the industry to finally drag itself out of the lethargy of a reluctance to train and recognise that the government is not coming to the party.
Perhaps we should consider the reintroduction of an industry-wide scheme under the auspices of the trade bodies.
Or perhaps the industry is going to sit back and watch the driver base implode...
RobertRoweth Huntingdon, Cants