Originally Posted by
Magpuller
Except if one guy gets away with it the flood gates could open and everybody would start leaving with their middle fingers extended.
What are they going to do though? I doubt a 1-2 year F.O has $20,000 lying around, and if they did, would they give it to RAH because thats the agreement?
Might come back to bite them in the ass if their new employer asks for a reference, but I guess that's a whole new legal arguement.
A court can't just seize every bit of cash a person has due to a civil award. Thankfully, the laws don't work that way. If you sign then break the agreement here is the process:
- RAH must sue you and win in Indiana then the court will issue an order to pay. If you refuse the order the court will issue a wage garnishment order.
- Your new employer has to be served with the garnishment order. However, you must live in a state where wage garnishments to collect civil awards are legal.
- Your state of employment must also recognize the legality of the RAH agreement. So even if they allow garnishments on a civil award, but the RAH note is not legal in your state of employment then you can get an injunction to block the garnishment.
- It gets even more complicated if you don't live in Indiana, work for an employer in another state but reside in a third state. If you work in again, say VA, but live in FL, VA allows the contract but FL does not or does not allow garnishments for civil awards, you can then sue RAH in a FL court to overturn the civil award.
Again, this is not a simple depending on your residency and relevant state laws. This is just s guess, but I'd be surprised if RAH took this all the way to a garnishment order.
Are you supposing that the pilot defending against these possible legal actions is getting that service for free or just plain ignoring the entire process?
Training contracts are training contracts. I'm sure that if any of the people so against them ran a business that required them to provide expensive training, and then not get some type of return on that investment, that they would not be in business very long. Someone called them unethical. I can't agree with that. Obviously the military is a huge user of training contracts - and I found the military to be very ethical in my time; of course I seemed to have had a better experience in my military career than many on this forum (thank goodness!) I sure there are many private businesses/corporations/etc... that would expect something back from a person whom they sent to a school or some type of high tech, expensive training. A little while ago there was a person posting on the forum who's company was going to send them to law school. Does everyone think that that the company doesn't deserve some type of guarantee or are you are so anti-management you can't see past your own noses?