Companies start charging for employee training
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Well, that's an accurate name. I get it, they don't want to invest money and not get anything out of it but that's just the risk they take.
How many people have moved or turned down job offers to take a position only to be laid off a year later? Nobody is proposing that the company that laid them off pay a penalty due to the lost opportunity or moving expenses that ended up being wasted.
You could theoretically have a contract provision for that. Same for these training costs. Of course, the issue is that the company has vastly more bargaining power and can impose such a requirement on you, while you (unless you are a star) cannot extract a promise to refund moving expenses.
Bullshit. We have a labor shortage in the US and employer bargaining power is at an all-time low. Nobody is forcing you to take any job. No one is putting a gun to your head.
As the welfare state continues to grow, employer power will continue to diminish because people will be fine with leeching off of welfare instead of working.
Is that not why companies are pulling shady shit like this?
They're completely out of legitimate options to retain staff - they can't afford to pay competitive wages, they've too much work on to be flexible. So, the remaining option - start punishing your staff if they leave.
That doesn't work, because you'd need to agree to a training reimbursement if you break your contract early when you sign your employment contract on hiring.
So if the company isn't willing to pay you "competitive wages", why would you agree? You wouldn't.
The real reason this is happening is that desirable employers are refusing to hire people without experience, so entry levels are forced to go to "undesirable" employers to get training, then promptly dump them and get a "better" job the minute they have enough experience. The employers who are getting used and exploited need to try to stop this exploitation and reduce turnover, so they very fairly say "your employment contract is X months, and we will eat the cost to train you if you complete your contract, but if you leave early, you need to partially reimburse us based on how long you stayed". It's not about "punishment", it's about the employer not being taken advantage of.