Other rights

Other rights

This Overview outlines the materials in our subtopic that consider other protected rights in employment.

Study or training

Most employees in businesses with 250 or more employees, who have been continuously employed for 26 weeks or more, have the statutory right to make a request to undertake study or training.

For a request to be valid, the purpose of the study or training (or both) in relation to which it is made must be to improve both:

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the employee's effectiveness in the employer's business, and
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the performance of the employer's business

The employer is obliged to consider such requests, and either agree them or hold a meeting (at which there is a right to be accompanied) to discuss them.

An employer may only refuse all or part of any such request if it thinks that one or more of the listed permissible grounds for refusal applies.

In certain circumstances, an employee who has made a request for study or training can bring a complaint before the employment tribunal on the ground that the employer has not dealt with their request correctly.

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