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Anonymous

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Morning,

 
I am desperately in need of guidance with my situation with my current employer. I am not sure if this situation would be classified as unfair labour practice. 
 
In January this year, the company decided to send me to the UK for  INTERNAL training - they are a global company with sites all over the world and they paid for the expenses as the trip was initiated by the company but before I left they made me sign a binding agreement which states that I will not leave them for a period of a year or if I do leave then they will make deductions on my salary when I leave. 
 
I was literally threatened that the trip will not be approved if I do not sign the document so I signed because the training I was going to was going to be beneficial to the site anyway. I signed despite the fact that their training policy does not stipulate anything about paying back especially for internal training. 
I am currently serving a notice as I have resigned on Monday and they are still threatening me with the deduction.
 
Is there anything I can do with this situation?
 
I will very much appreciate your response.
 


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Labour Protect

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Dear Anonymous

The definition of an unfair labour practise includes, in section 186(2) of the Labour Relations Act, "unfair conduct by the employer relating to the promotion, demotion, probation or training of an employee".

Therefore this practise would qualify as an unfair labour practise however we must first determine the validity of the agreement signed. The employer is no doubt trying to protect their investment in training employees. They are obviously concerned that they have spent money on training you but will not get the benefit of it.

I will look further into the matter and revert to you next week.

Kind Regards

Labour Protect



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