Template letter for NOT accepting a time to train request

Personal & Confidential

Employee's name

address

Date

Dear Employee's name

Training request: Application under section 63D Employment Rights Act 1996

I refer to your training request dated insert date made under the new statutory procedures.

Having carefully considered your request and having had the opportunity to discuss it with you on insert date of meeting, I am sorry to have to inform you that we are not able to support your request at this time. I realise this will be disappointing.

The reason(s) we have been unable to agree to your request is because of: delete any of the business reasons below that do not apply to the employee's application

the fact that the proposed study or training to which the application, or the part in question, relates would not improve:

your effectiveness in our business, or

the performance of our business

the burden of additional costs

detrimental effect on ability to meet customer demand

inability to re-organise work among existing staff

inability to recruit additional staff

detrimental impact on quality

detrimental impact on performance

there would not be enough work for you to do during the periods you propose to work

planned structural changes

The reason why we reached our decision is you must provide a written explanation of why the business reasons apply in the circumstances.

If you believe that we have not properly considered your request, you have the right to appeal against this decision. An appeal must be dated and submitted in writing to the Director of Personnel and Staff Development within 14 days of receiving this letter, setting out the grounds for your appeal.

Having now considered your request and notified our decision, we are not generally required to consider any further request by you under the statutory procedures for 12 months from the date of your last request.

Yours sincerely

your name

Translated by WordPort from POST.SPE, which was in Nota Bene format.

Andrew Johnson

2010-09-16

srz202

University Of Exeter