Originally Posted by
SpartanFlyer
..... when a company sends you a bill for "pilot expenses related to training" but NEVER signed a contract with that company. My understanding is that I don't owe them anything but should I worry that they are going to take legal action against me or is it scare tactics?
Far be it from me to tell you what to do, but I can tell you what I'd do. Leave.
I wouldn't have agreed to work for a company with such arrangements in the first place (but if I did, I'd stay and honor my agreement). In this case, if you had no verbal agreement, no written agreement, then were it me, I'd walk out the door and not look back.
Now you did say that you signed no agreement. Were you aware of their intent to collect training costs? Was there discussion, or any handshake, verbal agreement, discussion about, or hint or intimation of this?
Your wording suggests that your employer hit you out of the blue with this; no forewarning, no prior discussion. Is this the case, or did you know they'd be wanting reimbursement?
Your comments are very vague. What are "expenses related to pilot training?" They want you to pay back the hamburger they bought at lunch, or they want the cost of your training repaid in full? What expenses, and how do they relate? What level of training, and what did you actually receive from this training?
Be specific before we move on to discuss how this applies to you, because that depends on your answer here.