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Scottish Union Learning

Scottish Union Learning supports trade unions in accessing skills and lifelong learning opportunities that contribute to collective prosperity, fairness and equality, for workers across Scotland.

Scottish Union Learning Modern Apprenticeship Online Forum

To allow easy interaction with the Modern Apprenticeship Project, Scottish Union Learning have developed an online forum where you can post questions, raise points, share experiences and start discussions around the Modern Apprenticeship programme in Scotland.

Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) Websites

The STUC
The STUC speaks for trade union members in and out of work, in the community and in the workplace, in all occupational sectors and across Scotland.

There is a Better Way
‘There is a Better Way’ is an STUC campaign website which includes information on how to join a union. All workers have the right to join a union if they so choose. It is in your best interest to join one as research has shown that members within unionised workplaces receive better pay, conditions and benefits.

Why Join a Union?
Why Join a Union? Workers form unions so they can have a voice on the job to improve their lives, those of their families and their communities. In every part of working life unions make a difference.

STUC Youth Committee
The STUC Youth Committee is made up young workers less than 27 years of age from across Scotland and campaigns on a range of issues including the National Minimum Wage and health and safety of young workers. It represents young workers views and opinions to a number of bodies including government.

STUC Equality Committees
The STUC Equality Committees aim to tackle discrimination towards workers that may face discrimination in the workplace.

One Workplace
One Workplace aims to tackle discrimination and promote equality in the workplace via series of activities and resources for trade unions, employers and employees.

Close the Gap
Close the Gap works across Scotland with employers, trade unions and individuals, to encourage and enable action to address the gender pay gap.Close the Gap have worked with a number of individual trade unions to raise awareness of the pay gap, and to build capacity among reps to tackle equal pay issues within their workplaces.

Skills Development Scotland Websites

Skills Development Scotland
Skills Development Scotland is Scotland’s new skills body and is responsible for the Scottish Government’s delivery of the Modern Apprenticeship programme and are partners in Scottish Union Learning’s Modern Apprenticeship Project.

Careers Scotland
Careers Scotland is part of Skills Development Scotland. Careers Scotland has a clear and simple purpose - to help the people of Scotland secure the jobs of tomorrow.

ILA Scotland
ILA Scotland is a Scottish Government scheme that helps you pay for learning that you can do at a time, place, and pace in a way to suit you. It’s for people who have an income of £22,000 a year or less, or who are on benefits.

learndirect scotland
learndirect scotland helps to show people how, where and when you can learn in the way that suits you best. The Scottish Government would like everyone to be able to carry on learning right throughout their life - whether it's to get a job, improve existing skills or just to find out about something because it's interesting.

Other Useful Websites

The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils in Scotland
The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils in Scotland (Alliance Scotland) is tasked with representing, promoting and supporting the work of the Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) in Scotland.

Citizens Advice Scotland
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) and bureaux all over the country are working together to improve the lives of the people that live here.

Fair Tips campaign
The Fair Tips campaign calls on restaurants, hotels and bars to pass on all tips to the people who earned them - the staff. This means there must not be any deductions or any undercutting of the minimum wage.

The Health and Safety Executive
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness. We are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces.

Lone Working
Information on Lone Working is available on the TUC website. The HSE defines lone workers as “those who work by themselves without close or direct supervision”. Care work, shop-work, and maintenance work – most jobs – can require people to be left alone and isolated, which can be dangerous.

National Minimum Wage
National Minimum Wage rates can be found on the Directgov website.

THOMPSONS Scotland
Redress is part of THOMPSONS Scotland a leading Scottish legal practice specialising in personal injury claims. Thompsons Scotland’s practice has traditionally worked on behalf of the leading Scottish trade unions and organisations.
• Re-Dress
• THOMPSONS Scotland

Scottish Resource Centre for Women in Science Engineering and Technology
The Scottish Resource Centre for Women in Science Engineering and Technology sets out to create sustainable change for the participation of women in the SET (Science, Engineering, Technology) sectors in Scotland through
• Changing employment practices and workplace cultures to support gender equality;
• Supporting the recruitment, retention, return and success of women where they are significantly under-represented.
• Scottish Resource Centre
• UK Resource Centre

Violence at Work
Violence at Work, whether physical or verbal is unacceptable. All workers have a right to a safe work environment free from abuse in all forms. Suffering threatening behaviour isn’t part of the job.

Surveys

The Modern Apprenticeship Project
The Modern Apprenticeship Project survey is designed to find out about union awareness of, and involvement in, Modern Apprenticeships. Scottish Union Learning will use these results to support unions in working with Modern Apprentices.
• www.surveymonkey.com/s/modernapprenticeshipproject

The Future is Now
‘The Future is Now - Young Workers Learning Survey’ should only take 5 minutes to complete and will help inform the development of the STUC Youth Committee’s future lifelong learning activity for young people throughout Scotland.
• www.surveymonkey.com/s/youngworkerslearningsurvey

Fair Tips
The Fair Tips survey is designed to gather information on employers' attitudes regarding distribution of tips, gratuities and service charges and to ensure legislation introduced in October 2009 is adhered to; abolishing the right of employers to offset tips and gratuities against their minimum wage obligations.
• www.surveymonkey.com/s/fairtips

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There is a Better Way

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There is a Better Way
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