Legal Question in Employment Law in Virginia

I'm a graduate teaching assistant at a state university in Virginia. My contract says that "In the event your graduate assistantship award is terminated, you will be responsible for total reimbursement of all graduate assistantship funding." The full amount of funding I've received is something near $100,000, if you include the tuition waivers I've received. If I'm fired, is it legal for them to force me to pay them that money back?


Asked on 12/01/16, 7:24 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

If the word terminated also means fired (in the Trumpian sense),which would appear reasonable, then, yes, it would seem that you might well be pursuable for reimbursement to the Commonwealth for all(or at least some) of the funding which you've referenced.

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Answered on 12/01/16, 10:21 am


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