Becca
07-11-2011, 09:01 AM
We have recently employed a part-time Marketing Assistant who also works at an Awarding Body of a training course which our company runs. (Training is not the primary function of our business.)
In part, the decision to hire this individual was based on the fact that she has very relevant experience and understanding of the functions of our business, because of her work with the Awarding Body.
The Awarding Body have now asked us to issue a statement confirming that we will not ask our employee to undertake any duties which may be construed as a conflict of interest.
While I realise we cannot (and would not) ask her to provide us with any "insider information" to do with running the training, it is true that we will ask her to draw on her experience to help us to fully market the course in the most effective way.
The Awarding Body does not run it's own courses, it has various centers running courses on its behalf across the country (us being one of them).
Is this a conflict of interest?
In part, the decision to hire this individual was based on the fact that she has very relevant experience and understanding of the functions of our business, because of her work with the Awarding Body.
The Awarding Body have now asked us to issue a statement confirming that we will not ask our employee to undertake any duties which may be construed as a conflict of interest.
While I realise we cannot (and would not) ask her to provide us with any "insider information" to do with running the training, it is true that we will ask her to draw on her experience to help us to fully market the course in the most effective way.
The Awarding Body does not run it's own courses, it has various centers running courses on its behalf across the country (us being one of them).
Is this a conflict of interest?