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Unite questions loss-making HVCA’s ability to deliver new role
23 December 2011
Unite is calling into question the ability of the Heating Ventilation Contractors Association (HVCA) to take over from the Joint Industry Boards to deliver improved industrial relations and apprenticeship training in the electrical and plumbing trades.
Unite has concerns over the financial stability of the HVCA which has failed to balance its books for the last two years.
In the year ending February 2011, the HVCA ran up a deficit of £303,644, as income fell from £14,291,616 to £13,427,823, while staff remuneration increased, from £7,286,376 to £7,364,049. This followed a loss in the previous 12-month period up to February 2010 of £17,020.
Unite also questions whether the HVCA’s training provider - Building Engineering Services Training Limited (BEST) will be the best organisation to solely deliver all electrical and plumbing apprenticeship training, as is currently being proposed by the break-away employers.
In the year ending February 2010, BEST returned a loss of £74,826 compared with a profit in the previous year of £29,298.
And on the last comparable figures (2008/9), BEST’s Advanced Apprenticeships pass rate was at only 65%, significantly worse than the JIB’s biggest electrical training provider, JTL which enjoys an 80% success rate.
“Unite is very concerned that BEST is to be HVCA’s sole training agent, yet its success rate for advanced apprenticeships is much worse than the JTL and many other existing training providers.
Unite has rejected the proposals and wants the breakaway seven to return to negotiations through the JIBs.
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