Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

Our Amendment 79A is designed simply to seek assurances that the burden for filling out the form to make a request for time to train must fall with the employee, not the employer. The Bill states: ""The application must be made for the purpose of enabling the employee to undertake study or training (or both) within subsection (4)"." This subsection, therefore, does not make it completely clear that the administrative burden of filling out the form must be considered to have fallen on the employee. Surely if as an employee you are given this great right, the least that can be expected of you is to take responsibility for completing the application. We simply want to hear from the Minister that this would be the case. I beg to move.