Training should carry certification unless there's a good argument not to, but that means people will move around. It's a pan-European problem which is not peculiar to Ireland. However, unions feel that, if people are going to put in their time and study, they should get the piece of paper at the end of it. The current labour squeeze is forcing employers to revisit their attitudes to training. Now it has all changed.
Employers have to look to the skills of their own people.
The labour market has changed remarkably, he says, so much so that new entrants to the workforce have no conception of what life was like a decade ago. When you explain to young people today about the way things were in the 1980s, it's as if we are saying we fought in the American Civil War. They just don't believe how things were and how they have changed and in a very short time.