Training contracts - has anyone ever tried recouping costs from training a staff member that has left?

[AHPP]

6 minutes ago, Retired Climber said:

You'd normally use the restraint of trade argument to counter a non-compete clause rather than this type of case. 

 

First thing I'd try would be to argue that the recouping of training costs took the employee below NMW in a given period. 

 

I'd invented some tenuous way to apply it here but it's gone as quickly as it arrived. Have you got a legal background or do you just know a bit?

[Retired Climber]

25 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

I'd invented some tenuous way to apply it here but it's gone as quickly as it arrived. Have you got a legal background or do you just know a bit?

Take my posts as the well intentioned ramblings of someone with an interest in the field. I'm not a lawyer. 

[GarethM]

Such contracts didn't work particularly well for Amey, they tried that with a lot of gas/electric meter installers before COVID, and it went down like a lead balloon and they lost a lot of cases in the small claims courts.

 

Your better off saying 6 months and you'll do your basic ticket, or see if there is a college route and take the hit for one day a week etc.

 

Better to make friends employee wise than them running off and setting up against you in the local area.

 

Plus non compete were made illegal decades back, unless you're selling a business from vague conversations.

Edited 12 hours ago by GarethM