Legal Question in Employment Law in Utah
How likely is it for an employer to file a judgement for tuition reimbursement?
I worked for my employer for 3.5 years and during that time only claimed tuition reimbursement 2 or 3 semesters. I quit and was contacted not too far after stating that I needed to pay back the $1600.00 or so dollars in monthly payments or I would have a judgment filed against me. How likely is it an employer would go through that trouble and how do I find out if they do in fact have the ability to require repayment?
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Re: How likely is it for an employer to file a judgement for tuition reimbursement?
You need to find out exactly what the terms of the tuition reimbursement program are. For example, reimbursement may depend upon employment for a specific term of years which you may not have met, or may depend on the relevance to employment of the subjects taken, or may depend on continued employment for a specific period before leaving employment.
Terms may be found in your employee handbook and/or from the human resources department.
As for the likelihood of them pursuing a suit against you, that is an unknowable. It's a relatively small amount that may not be worth pursuing by the employer for the money but may be worth pursuing as an object lesson to other employees.
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