The entitlement afforded to employee’s to contribute to the PTVR training requirements/ commitments should be the same regardless of employers. At the moment my employer allows me to use as many days off as necessary but refuses to pay me. Other companies will allow their employee’s to be paid for all or a portion of the time they commit to their role as a PTVR and unfortunately there are employers that force their PTVR employees to use annual leave entitlements to fulfil training requirements. This seems unacceptable and should surely be one set legislation entitlement for all PTVR where this is concerned.
My Sqn writes to my employer once a year to let them know what we are doing over the year. I believe this is beneficial to me as it gives them I idea of what I do. As I get an extra eight days paid leave for Reserve Service, they actually have a right to know.
When I apply for new jobs I find most potential new employers are put off from hiring me due to me being in the reserves.
My employer allows me to take two weeks unpaid leave to complete my ACT…At a lower level my employer is not unsupportive but I don’t think they really understand what a reservist is and how it can be a positive in what it can bring to my civilian employment.
Awareness of what the RAF Reserve is and the benefits to employers are still low outside the big companies.
There is a shortage of skilled nursing and allied health professional staff generally, and covering for the deployment of a skilled employee for a prolonged period is difficult. This means employers are less likely to encourage more than one reservist, and are not that supportive of training requirements. Big employers, such as the NHS Trusts, support at a management level, but the responsibility for covering the Reservist falls to the immediate line manager, and they are not so willing to be flexible. Many of our current reservists find it very difficult to get time off for training weekends because of this.
Make employers support reservists by changing the law.
I work for a civil service organisation that has a private enterprise equivalent. My terms and conditions restrict my participation in the reserves whereas the private sector is actively encouraged to contribute and release their employees. Lobby the minister to change the out- dated attitude of the civil service - specifically the Prison Service.
Make the benefits to employers more visible in the general RAF Reserves advertising. It should sell the reserves to employers as much as potential recruits.
The view of most employers is that having a reservists as an employee is of no benefit to them whatsoever and dread them being mobilised. We should be emphasising the great public service firms are doing by employing reservists and supporting them through their mobilisations. Employers only see the time away from their work place as opposed to the benefits the reservist brings back to the workplace.
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