ASK THE HEADHUNTER Can we make employees pay for quitting?

[deanwebb]

Can we make employees pay for quitting?

In the October 1, 2019 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter an HR manager complains about the cost of employees quitting right after they complete training. Question Can we charge new hires a penalty when they quit and leave us short-staffed? Can an employer state in an employment contract that if the new hire does not stay for a certain number of days, we retain the right to withhold $X to reimburse us for the time we spent training them? This Generation X and their job-hopping is costing this hospital tens of thousands and we are trying to find ways to teach

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[deanwebb]

Hold on, they're complaining about GEN X and job-hopping? Gen X is MY generation, the guys in their 40s and 50s...

And, honestly, you really don't want to go there, making employees pay for their professional training.

[Otanx]

If they start putting a employment time requirement on new hire training all that is going to happen is they will just move when people leave to that date. If anyone even agrees to work there. People leave for a reason. They need to figure out why people leave, and fix that. Is their competition paying better, have a better work/life balance? Solve that, and people will stay.

Sort of on-topic. There is a major employer here in town. They are not the best place to work, but they pay bonuses in January for the previous year. These can be 25 - 50% of your salary. So everyone hangs out to January, and the day after bonuses there is a line at HR for people turning in notices. They don't try to take the bonus back, or anything. They just accept it as a cost of doing business.

-Otanx

[deanwebb]

I worked at one place where we would turn in our annual review in October, get told about our bonus amount in Jan/Feb, and then receive the bonus around May, which wasn't all that far off from another annual review, so it was a pattern that kept people circling the drain for a long time without falling in.