Employee Training Fees: Can a Company Ask for Reimbursement if You Resign?

I want to know if the company has provided an employee with training to enhance their business and paid the fees for that training, can the company ask the employee to reimburse the fees if that employee decides to leave the company after providing the mandatory notice period?

Dear Manni521, Recovery of the expenses incurred because of funding the training program would be possible if the employer had made an exclusive contract to this effect. Secondly, if this contract had been made before the commencement of the training program, it would lend more credibility to the contract.

Therefore, the question arises: What kind of documentation do you have to prove that you, as an employer, are eligible to initiate the recovery process? If not the contract as stated above, have you inserted a clause to this effect in the appointment letter? If yes, then please provide the verbatim of the appointment letter.

Thanks,

Dinesh Divekar

Dear Dinesh Sir,

It is not mentioned anywhere in the appointment letter provided by the company to that employee that he would be liable to pay for the trainings that he had taken while working in the company. Furthermore, the employee never asked or forced the management of the company to provide him with the training. In this condition, is he liable to pay the charges of the training at the time of relieving?