Can We Legally Ask a Resigned Employee to Pay Back Overseas Training Costs?

Compensation for Training Costs After Resignation

Can we ask the employee who resigned to compensate for the cost of training? This is because he resigned after completing an expensive overseas training. Is it legal?

It looks like your company has no policies at all. If you have policies for covering important activities of your company, then you would have created a policy for training as well. Normally, technical training, in which the company spends a large amount of money by nomination, registration, training charges, travel, stay, etc., is defined in a training policy.

In respect of training, which costs a good amount of money to the organization, you should have incorporated the cost of training and related expenses from the employee concerned, just in case he or she leaves the organization within a specified time limit after the training. So you should have created a policy. If the person had already quit your company, you can't do anything about it now.

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