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Employment Law On Training Bond - Chia, Lee & Associates
Employment Law On Training Bond - Chia, Lee & Associates
Overview
I
t is quite common that in some industries that the employer will provide for their employee with “work-related training” so that the latter would be
qualified to perform the duties or functions that they are hired for.
In consideration of the contribution to their training costs, the employees are required to give an undertaking that, if they leave the employment
within, for example, 3 years, they would repay their training costs or a portion thereof.
This is often referred to as an “employment bond” or “training bond”, and is commonly seen in airlines industries which provide such work related
trainings to their pilots.
Such agreement may be contained in the employment agreement, therefore, employees must be aware of its legal implications before signing it.
At times, it could also be a stand-alone agreement in respect of education and training costs and expenses incurred by the employer in favour of an
employee.
The Law
If intended, it is also essential that the terms of the repayment provision state that repayment can be by way of deduction from the employee’s
salary or wages.
2.Compensation
If properly drafted, such agreement gives the employer an enforceable monetary compensation or claim for liquidated ascertained damages, if
it pays for training and the employee then leaves the employment before the employer has had any (or any adequate) advantage from the
training.
3.Judicial Consideration
It has always been the judicial consideration that whenever the employer is taking steps to enforce the repayment clause in the employments
bond or training bond, it must not claim for excessively high and unconscionable penalty in order to deter or punish the employees for
prematurely leaving the employment.
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Our view is that such exorbitant claims can never apply where the contract does not impose an obligation to perform the act, but simply provides that,
if one party does not perform an act, he will pay the other party a specified sum.
Conclusion:-
In summary, a signed Training Bond by the employer and the employee connotes a free consent of parties competent to contract, for a lawful
consideration and with a lawful object, and is signed voluntarily without fraud, misrepresentation, coercion, duress or undue influence, thus
enforceable in court of law.
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