17 March 2005
Your response vital to bring £4.5m to transform print industry skills
Proskills, the proposed Sector Skills Council (SSC) for the printing industry and 4 other process and manufacturing industries needs your support. With enough sector backing Proskills will gain its licence and over its first three years would bring £4.5m of Government investment into the industry for research and development and over time have access to even greater funding for the sector. If licenced, Proskills will help employers in their recruitment, retention, development and realisation of a skills workforce. It will be for the industry, led by employers. The remit of the new SSC will be: · Recruitment and retention · Employer investment · Sector productivity · Essential and key/core skills · Health, safety and environment · Addressing the needs of SMEs Without your input and returned questionnaire the industry will lose out on this major opportunity. Please take the time to read through a short consultation document and fill out a brief questionnaire giving your views and stating your support. Closing date is 31st March. Click here to download the consultation paper. Click here to complete the short online questionnaire.Pay Review Data, Wage Benchmarking and Cost of Living – FEB 2024 UPDATE
14 February 2024
We have collated data from multiple sources that should be useful for BPIF members that are approaching internal pay reviews, and/or are having a closer look at their pay and benefits structure. The datafile, first published in February 2023, has been updated with the latest available data - and additional content on factors exerting pressure on pay settlements in 2024.
Slight recovery of output and orders falls short of expectations in Q4 - confidence concerns mount in 2024
22 February 2024
Performance in the UK's printing and printed packaging industry did improve in Q4, as far as output and orders are concerned. However, it didn't come close to what would historically be considered the seasonal norm, nor quite match the subdued expectations for Q4.
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