Here is my take, yes the company is doing this to save money and they are too cheap to buy enough 75/76 sims to meet their needs. But it is their ball so Ill play along. I just updated my 75 "qualification" with an LMS course and got paid 3 hours to do it. It was a good refresher. If there was a simlar course for the 76 I would probably do it for free (but don't tell them). My suggestion would be for the company to take those 12-15 hours of pay they are saving per year and offer quarterly LMS training sessions at 3 hours per. Make the session voluntary for a year and test participation. Establish their own best practice, instead of just copying the ones that save money and ignoring the ones that don't.