Extract from Public Bill committee proceedings on the Armed Forces (Flexible Working) Bill - Nov 14
Wednesday, 15 November 2017 07:15
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Mr Tobias
Ellwood):...This evidence already provides us with detailed
assessment of the benefits of the new forms of flexible working.
The MOD is experiencing many of the same skills and recruitment
challenges that are being faced nationally, so to meet those
challenges as proactively as possible, we are modernising the
employment offer for our armed forces to better allow defence to
attract and retain the right mix of people and skills....Request free trial
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Mr
Tobias Ellwood):...This evidence already provides us with
detailed assessment of the benefits of the new forms of flexible
working. The MOD is experiencing many of the same skills and
recruitment challenges that are being faced nationally, so to meet
those challenges as proactively as possible, we are modernising the
employment offer for our armed forces to better allow defence to
attract and retain the right mix of people and skills. As I
mentioned earlier, those are being managed collectively under our
armed forces people programme, which comprises projects including
the new joiner offer and the enterprise approach. The latter is
about taking people with civilian skills—for example, working
for Rolls-Royce or Babcock—and bringing them
straight across to work in the defence environment...
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