The Bureau of Employment and Vocational Training has warned job seekers that wedding planning is not listed as one of its vocational training programs.
Last November, the Long Ma Wedding Company approached the bureau's Northern Training Center in Taishan, Taipei County regarding a co-sponsorship program to train people who were interested in becoming wedding planners.
However, the partnership fell apart because the consulting company failed to fulfill the agreed-upon terms.
"Our center signed a contract with this wedding company last November. We agreed to provide the training, and we would supervise and subsidize program costs," said Kuo, the center's coordinator.
Officials from the wedding company and the training center agreed that the firm would be responsible for writing a worker progress report and after each class and submit it to the center.
Eighteen students signed up for the training program.
On the very first day of training, the center conducted a spot-check on the class and was pleased with the training content. Later, training center personnel asked for a progress report, but one was never submitted.
The second week into the training program, the center conducted a second spot-check because the progress report was never received.
"During the second visit, we told the company to turn in both the first and second report. By then, they were already sending out students into the field for internships," the coordinator said.
Certificates given to students at the end of each program were designed by the wedding company, but required approval by the training center.
The certificate design, which stated that the program's co-sponsor was the Northern Training Center, was later rejected by the center.
As the company failed to fulfill several terms of the agreement, the center decided to end its co-sponsorship of program.
The Northern Training Center urged the company to retract all certificates that had been given out, but the company did not do so.
"We have been told that when recruiting students for its training program, this company still tells its students that the program is sponsored by the bureau. It is totally misleading and the public should be aware of that," coordinator said.
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