Legal Question in Employment Law in North Carolina
Requiring Employees to reimburse Company for paid training
Are there policies or can we type up our own policy to require an employee to reimburse the company for training classes that the company requires the employee to attend. The company is willing to pay all costs for the training provided that if we invest the money for this training that the employee stays with the company. If they leave the company within a certain time frame the President would like the employee to reimburse the company for some if not all of the training.
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Re: Requiring Employees to reimburse Company for paid training
I do not see why you can't do something like that. For the most part, the doctrine of "freedom of contract" rules; meaning that you and the employee can agree to anything. You can probably concoct any number of wordings to achieve this (e.g. in the event that employee leaves the employ of employer within three months of training, employee shall reimburse employer for all training expenses, which may be deducted from the final payments to employee). Also, you could have the employee "front" the training expenses, and reimburse them in a few months, if they stay; I have heard of similar arrangements.
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