More American companies are charging employees for their own job training if they quit.
At least 10 percent of workers in the United States in 2020 were forced to sign a training repayment agreement by their employers, according to the Cornell Survey Research Institute, in a story by Reuters.
The agreements are termed Training Repayment Agreement Provisions (TRAPs) by detractors.
Many workers and employee rights advocates in multiple industries have complained to state and federal regulators about former employers charging workers large financial penalties if they quit after training.
However, this practice is beginning to draw some scrutiny from government regulators and Congress, reported Reuters.
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), for example, is looking into proposing a bill next year to rein in these TRAP agreements, a Senate Democratic aide told Reuters.
Local officials like Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, is reviewing the regularity of the practice and may push for new state guidance.
Ellison told Reuters that he leans toward opposing mandatory reimbursements for job-specific training, but he may exempt the practice for specific certifications like commercial driving licenses, which are widely recognized as valuable.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been reviewing the practice since June, according to Reuters. MORE
Solution:
Wear a MAGA hat to work and make them fire you.
Misgender someone at work and make them fire you.
Wear a Burn-Loot-Murder shirt to work and make them fire you.
You’re welcome!
How do you force an applicant to sign a training repayment agreement?
It’s all in how you word it. This could be considered indentured servitude. Or, the company could offer a loan for job training that is forgiven after a certain length of employment.
If you control the language…
If an employee of a company is being replaced by a lower wage foreigner but is forced to train the replacement can he charge back for the training?
aircubed, it’s probably buried in a “non-compete” clause.
I had to sign one of those years ago.
I had already been working for the company for years.
I said no, the boss said it was mandatory.
I could have forced the issue but instead I negotiated a pay-raise out of it.
I’ve trained a lot of entry level people to find their way around a CNC. And more than a few of them quit for a dime more down the road. So I stopped training them.
With the quality of training most employers offer new employees, it should only amount to a couple of bucks.
I’ve become untrainable in my dotage and trained for that for years…
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that certain, ahem, *individuals* will NOT be required to repay the company…
If you took a job and that was a contingency, you should be stuck with it. But as typical democraps of course they would view this similarly as they would student loan forgiveness.
Given the current crop of entitled woke crybabies, those who got their teachers fired for making the class too hard and feel that the world revolves around them and their nano-second attention spans, I would do the same thing.
Prove your worth and make yourself indispensable to your employer, that’s how you get ahead.
Will Biden have to repay us taxpayers?
I had a friend, many years ago, that wasn’t required to repay the costs for his training, but the company did count it as wages paid to him when he had to quit soon after the training.
I was “replaced” by Accenture idiots three different times and had to train them to take over my job. I trained them good but my employer had to keep me because the “non-us-based individuals” didn’t have the brains to do the job. I spent the last five years of employment training my replacements. I retired before they could figure out what they were supposed to do and came back as a consultant at ten times my previous salary. I charged my employer $300 per hour for consultation which easily covered my bond for being a consultant. I retired at age 54, took a major hit on my pension, but easily made up the difference helping the incompetent dumb fucks who took my job.
Laugh my ass off all the way to the bank….
So? The Army used to do that (don’t know about now).
Depending on the length, difficulty, level (basic, advanced), promotion potential……all those were calculated into how much time you had to serve (mandatory) as part of your enlistment.