Workers who sign training repayment agreements can owe their employers thousands of dollars if they leave their jobs early. Regulators are starting to crack down on the practice.
Had to deal with a contract like this too. If you’re in the US or London, watch out for FDM Group. When I was there, if you stay for longer than 2 weeks in their training, their contract requires you to pay 20k.
This is almost certainly not enforceable, but that’s either litigation or a hit to your credit.
They scoop up folks (like myself) who have trouble getting a software dev job, and then send you of too various parts of the US to work for pennies with a client. I can allow that the cheap contract labor might be necessary for high risk hires, but that fee-intimidation-tactic is fucked.
(I actually would quibble about whether it’s necessary/moral for “high risk hires”, but I’m not interested in having that conversation with people right now…)
Had to deal with a contract like this too. If you’re in the US or London, watch out for FDM Group. When I was there, if you stay for longer than 2 weeks in their training, their contract requires you to pay 20k.
This is almost certainly not enforceable, but that’s either litigation or a hit to your credit.
They scoop up folks (like myself) who have trouble getting a software dev job, and then send you of too various parts of the US to work for pennies with a client. I can allow that the cheap contract labor might be necessary for high risk hires, but that fee-intimidation-tactic is fucked.
(I actually would quibble about whether it’s necessary/moral for “high risk hires”, but I’m not interested in having that conversation with people right now…)