Saw an outfit recently that required "ongoing education" from even the call center rats. This is actually a mechanism for "Boss's cousin Becky's Cert Mill" to get paid by the company and withdraw money from the employees.

"Kickbacks" got outlawed so the parasites had to call it by another name.

The problem is not "certs" or even a desire to help employees continue learning; its management that wants an easy token they can wave around instead of doing real things, and employees who are willing to participate in such horseshit.