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Can an Employer Charge an Overseas Worker for a Return Ticket Home

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  • 05-17-2018, 02:03 PM
    lawfacts
    Can an Employer Charge an Overseas Worker for a Return Ticket Home
    An employee is working overseas for a U.S. employer, and the agreement was that the employee would receive a return ticket home at the conclusion of the contract. The employee wants to resign from the contract five months early. The employer says that the employee must complete the contract or pay for his own return ticket home.

    Can the employer require the employee to buy his own return ticket? The work is in Asia and the ticket is quite expensive.

    Would it make a difference if the employer already purchased the ticket, and is asking the employee to reimburse them for the cost?
  • 05-17-2018, 03:11 PM
    Mr. Knowitall
    Re: Can an Employer Charge an Overseas Worker for a Return Ticket Home
    For the first question, the short answer is that absent something in a binding employment contract that requires the employer to pay, the employer can decline to pay for the employee's ticket home.

    If the employer already purchased the ticket, the employee can likely make changes to the ticket without going through the employer and thus fly back on the ticket by paying any fees for changing the travel date, but without first repaying the employer. If that's the case, any effort to recover the cost of the ticket from the employee's pay would potentially be restricted by the laws of the state through which the employee entered into the employment relationship.
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