Employees who leave pay their training costs

Another clause that could come back to haunt employees, is the condition referring to the professional development. One of the information that is usually passively agreed upon is the reimbursement of professional development expenses related to their duties and responsibilities if the employee decides to leave the company before the date stipulated in the hiring contract.

Under legal provisions, the employees who benefited of training or professional development courses that spread over more than 60 days are not entitled to demand termination of employment contract for at least three years since the ending of training or professional development courses.

“If you are student or recent graduate or you have narrow knowledge or work experience, a company will offer you a program for your training. If I, as a company, decide to train you, I expect you not to leave your job until I recover the investment or until I record a profit from your knowledge achieved during the training period”, Kovacs said.

The employees who rush into looking over the contract terms or those who are little informed on these details can easily fall in the employers’ trap when they sign the employment contract together with a collaboration agreement.