“Employers are looking for ways to keep their workers from quitting without raising wages or improving working conditions” ...
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i.e. indentured servitude
Competitive pay scales would solve the problem.
Not hardly. Training is expensive. IT training for a week on a platform like Windows Server, RHEL, VMWare, etc. can cost upwards of 6000, plus whatever travel expenses are necessary to get to the training. So if you really think about it- 6000 for training, 50-100 a day for a rental car, 100-200 a day for a hotel, anywhere from 300-1500 for a flight, and then an entire week’s worth of lost productivity while the person is out of the office. It becomes very expensive very fast.
Over my entire career there has always been a form that needed to be signed off on at every employer for every training agreeing that if you leave the company within 2 years of getting the training you will be charged a pro-rated fee that correlates with the training expense.
In other industries, its pretty common to give people onboarding training and if they stay beyond however many days, 90-180 days, then they get a bonus, too.
Basically, this article is a bunch of typical media crap. This is a business practice that makes sense but also one that has been going on forever.
Hardly.
Skirts the line, but no.
They are free to quit.
As a practical matter it’s basically impossible to collect. Yhr employer would
Have to sue.
Maybe send a 1099 for forgiveness of debt.
No its not. In trucking, many companies pay for you to be trained and certified to drive a big rig. This costs money and the companies expect you to work for them to offset the cost. Otherwise they get free training and then bug out.
Most have a clause that you have to pay for the training if you quit before a certain time period. YOU agree to this ahead of time. It is not a trap or disguised in any way.