OP ref: the minimum wage part - is it an 'apprenticeship' - that could well explain that part.
Firstly I doubt it is something they'd check - why would they, she doesn't even need to mention that there was a certificate nor give details of the company that ran it... even with the certificate she's unlikely to be in a situation where it needs to be presented. She attended some work related course via the job centre, the job centre could confirm that if needed.
Secondly even if going to the company I don't see why the company would want to open themselves up to liability by denying she'd attended a course... We don't know what the agreement was re: the course in the first place, perhaps part of it is specified to include some form of training contract to work for too and without that they don't award a certificate. It is a bit of paper awarded by a company for a course they've designed and some criteria they've come up with... if they don't want to award it and they can cite some rules they've got for not doing so then is there really anything she can do about it?
On the other hand they can't deny she's attended the course and she's free to put it down on her CV anyway.
^ if she does that, her future employee could easily ring up the company and ask if she completed the course, she would then come across as a liar, thats pretty hard to come back from.
Firstly I doubt it is something they'd check - why would they, she doesn't even need to mention that there was a certificate nor give details of the company that ran it... even with the certificate she's unlikely to be in a situation where it needs to be presented. She attended some work related course via the job centre, the job centre could confirm that if needed.
Secondly even if going to the company I don't see why the company would want to open themselves up to liability by denying she'd attended a course... We don't know what the agreement was re: the course in the first place, perhaps part of it is specified to include some form of training contract to work for too and without that they don't award a certificate. It is a bit of paper awarded by a company for a course they've designed and some criteria they've come up with... if they don't want to award it and they can cite some rules they've got for not doing so then is there really anything she can do about it?
On the other hand they can't deny she's attended the course and she's free to put it down on her CV anyway.
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