Training contracts holds not legal grounds. Compass or any other 121 company has to legally training you for the job. Even if you already have an ERJ 190/170 type, they have to legally train you with their approved training program. You cant show up and day 1 and have them say, "you already have a CRJ, ERJ, DCH8 PIC/SIC type so you can skip the training. We will send you to OE to expidite this process."

If you take the job, then leave and is promted to pay then it comes down to you not knowing your rights if you are stupid enough to pay. Training is a fixed cost. With that a budget is made, tax is paid, and tax cuts and returns are given. If a pilot leave one of these companies and is promted to pay do youself and the rest of us a favor and fill out IRS Form 3949-A. How Do You Report Suspected Tax Fraud Activity?

Even if you sign the initial training "contract" its an illegal contract to begin with and will hold no grounds. You are signing this so called contract under duress. How to Prove that Documents Were Signed Under Duress - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com Either you sign this document on day one in training or no job for you. How is that legal? Does the HR person or chief pilot give you a chance and opportunity to review this document with a lawyer, I think not. They rush to get you to sign, then leave the room. Now you are intimidated with the impression that if you leave, you have to pay. That could be argued as duress. duress legal definition of duress. duress synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.. Though not vilolent, its still falls under duress due to the the force, stress, pressue and intimidation to sign or else be unemployed.

Paying back a training contract to any airline will be unreported income, therefore it is a tax fraud..

I'm honestly sick of hearing about these contracts and pilots scaring other pilots. Educate youself