Paying back training fee if i leave ??

[srochford]

Sounds interesting, imo i wouldn't let them get away with that kind of thing. Schools have a CPD budget, if you were asked to go on it then obviously there was a need for the skill for the school. They can't then say oh by the way, your new skills you've aquired are now ours and can you put this leash around your neck, it's unfair and you wouldn't have that if you were a teacher, guaranteed. Disappointing schools now want their cake AND eat it, if you're that much of a liability (in a leaving sense) why put you on it at all?

 

Surely, the point is that the *school* has a CPD budget and the school expects to use it to develop staff at the school so that the school can benefit from the skills acquired.

 

I've been out of schools for too long to say what happens there for teachers but in FE it's normally the case that anyone (lecturer or support staff) receiving more than a few pounds for training would be expected to pay it back if they left within a short space of time.

 

Every decent employer knows that they need to train their staff and also knows that as an employer they will get some benefit from this and the employee will get some benefit. What they need to do is try and balance the cost of the training against its benefits to all involved.

[Hightower]

As a condition of you joining you asked them to put you on the course, but as a condition of you joining, they probably put a term in your contract saying that if you left within 2 years you had to pay it back in full, thats pretty standard for councils.

 

Yes - it was on my terms that I accepted the job, but I can assure you there is nothing in my contract or any other council policies that state the fee's will be reclaimed.

 

The reason I'm standing my ground is because of the principle of the thing. I feel it is wrong to have nothing said to me or being asked to sign anything, and then have a letter coming through my door that includes and invoice - completely out the blue!