Ms. Tremain tends to hear from people after they’ve quit their jobs and received a letter from their former employer stating that they owe money for training.
Employers see T.R.A.s as a way to improve retention and prevent paying for training employees who then leave soon after.
Dan Pyne, a lawyer with Hopkins & Carley, a law firm in Silicon Valley, who has written T.R.A.s and represented employers enforcing T.R.A.
The other group is employers looking to help employees gain new skills that will serve them later on in their careers.
“When the training is required by the employer, that is the employer’s cost of doing business, and they can’t force the employee to bear that cost or to reimburse that cost,” Mr. Pyne said.
Persons:
Tremain, they’ve, “ It’s, ”, Dan Pyne, Carley, Mr, Pyne, Oh
Organizations:
Employers, Hopkins
Locations:
Silicon Valley, California, Bellevue, Wash