Workers' right to demand time off for training could be scrapped as part of a government review into red tape. John Hayes, the skills minister, will today launch a five-week consultation on the regulation, part of which came into force just four months ago. Business groups welcomed the move, saying the cost of the current legislation was too high. Mike Harris, head of education and skills policy at the Institute of Directors, said: "The right to request time off for training is a spectacularly bad policy. It simply wasn't necessary to wrap discussions about training between employers and employees in formal rules and regulations." But unions argued scrapping the right would undermine the economic recovery.
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