had a contract question.
I got hired on with a local pd in november 2016. I started actually working for the dept in may 2017. I'm in the state police academy as we speak. This week the city gives the cadets a contract to sign basically stating we will be with the dept for at least a year starting from when we go on probation, which will be soon. If we terminate our employment before that year, we will pay back costs associated with uniforms, training academy tuition etc...in addition to this, we will pay back our salary as well.
I was okay with everything up until us having to pay back our salary.
What are yalls thoughts on this? I feel like we worked for that pay so we shouldn't have to pay back the salary. Like I said, I understand having to pay back the costs for the uniforms and because they are paying for our state academy tuition I understand the need to recoup that too. I'm just unsure about the salary they want back.
I'm obviously not going to cause trouble and not sign it or anything like that. The dept has been good to me so far. I just don't know why they waited so long to give us a contract to sign AND the clause about repaying salary.