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Pay Thousands to Quit Your Job? Some Employers Say So. Some U.S. businesses are forcing workers to sign contracts that demand steep “reimbursements” if they leave. (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The article talks about how these sorts of contracts have to be tied directly to training costs to be legal. In the first example in the article the contract didn't specify an amount and didn't tie it to, really, anything. So it was legally like coercing someone to stay and work according to the lawyer that took the case.

[–] PixTupy@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

In my country companies are forced to give a certain amount of hours of free training a year to employees or they pay heavy fines.

They usually fill it up with compliance training bullshit though.