Hi. Any lawyers or HR people out there? I have a bit of a situation. I''m leaving my current company, and they have been paying for grad school. The policy is that I have to repay everything that was covered in the past year. I have no problem with this, except for two things:
1) HR at my company is saying that I have to pay back the money in full before I leave on my last day. This is NOT in the policy. (I was hoping to use my signing bonus for my new job to pay it, which would come roughly one month after I leave my old job.)
2) I haven''t "officially" given notice (i.e. in writing) yet and HR at my company is threatening to garnish my wages to pay for this tuition.
3) I know of 3 or 4 people who have left my company in the last 2 years to go to customers of my company who also owed money but were never billed for it.
Does anyone know what my rights are? Can I use "preferential treatment" of ex-employees going to customers to try to get them to ease up and let me pay them when my signing bonus from the new job comes through?
Thank you!