Help With Apprenticeship Training Costs Repayment

Jillanddy

Manxman_in_exile said:

Does the OP need to go through an employment tribunal?

If the law says that apprenticeship training costs cannot be recovered in these circumstances, then the OP will have six years in which to recover any deducted wages from their employer as an unpaid contractual debt.  Seems simpler than having to go to an Employment Tribunal with whatever time limits apply.  If I were the OP I would point this out to my employer.

Also, if the employer is a "professional" accountancy firm (whether they have 4 employees or 400), I would be reporting the principal to whatever professional accountancy body they belong to, as they obviously are ignorant of relevant employment law.  Not exactly a good advert for any accountancy firm).

(All this assumes that apprenticeship training fees in this case are irrecoverable, and that "accountancy" means accountancy and not book-keeping).

Because they only have 3 months less a day to go to a tribunal.  Otherwise they would have to go through a small claim,  and that does cost money ( although they could claim it back). I also assume that someone  on an apprenticeship wage doesn't have the resource to loan their ex employer their wages for six years!