Workplace Report October 2020

Learning and training news

Union unveils training portal

Members of the Unite general union whose jobs have been lost or threatened by the coronavirus pandemic are being offered access to a range of training courses to help them gain the necessary skills to return to the workplace.

The union has partnered with educational technology company Olive Group to provide a portal called MC2 which has more than 100 accredited courses available. The union says that, for £4 a month, “a Unite member and up to six additional users can exclusively access courses that dovetail with an individual’s training needs”.

The portal can also match a person’s work profile to available jobs.

Unite director of education Jim Mowatt said: “The unique selling point of MC2 is that it provides vocational courses, qualifications and securing jobs all under one ‘internet roof’.”

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