Women: use them or lose out
Skills For Logistics (SfL) is in danger of losing its £1m grant to encourage more women into the industry because of the slow uptake of Women & Work initiatives. SfL has a £1m grant to ensure women fill 575 driving positions and 500 warehousing positions, and another 200 women in middle management roles are mentored to achieve career progression - by March 2008.
However, so far just 100 women have completed the process to become drivers, while the uptake for warehousing positions is unclear, as the initiative was only launched in the summer.
