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Posted for a colleague with no access to the list.
He has just found out that the company I work for has the following policy
re training costs (paraphrased)
Above a certain limit the company pays training cost but:
if you leave within 6 months you become liable for the whole costs
if you leave within a year you become liable for 50% of costs
if you leave with 18 months you become liable for 25% of costs
What he'd like to know is if this is fairly standard procedure.
I have worked places before now where something similar (leaving with 6
months) applied.
