Capita and FDM Group face legal action over employee exit fees...

[SueEllen]

https://www.theguardian.com/business...over-exit-fees

Outsourcing specialists Capita and FDM Group are facing potential legal action from former employees who were faced with demands for thousands of pounds in fees when they tried to leave.

Both companies insist graduates and other job hunters carry out three or four months of training, for which they are not paid, before they are put forward for work with top companies.

Trainees must then agree to work for two years or be liable for up to £20,000 in fees for the training courses, as first revealed by the Guardian last year.

(Which of you have been complaining to The Guardian?)

Maugham said he believed charging such high fees acted as an “unlawful restraint of trade” as they did not legitimately reflect the cost of the training the companies had provided workers. He said all the contracts signed by those involved in the case levied the same obligation to pay right up until the last day of their two-year commitment.

FDM said -

An FDM spokesperson said: “FDM Group’s training programme provides an opportunity for all graduates to gain and build a successful career in IT.

“We provide an average of 10 weeks of training which equips trainees with the skills and knowledge and nationally recognised qualifications that are essential for them to become an IT or business consultant, across a number of service areas.

Capita declined to comment.

[Mordac]

“We provide an average of 10 weeks of training which equips trainees with the skills and knowledge and nationally recognised qualifications that are essential for them to become an IT or business consultant, across a number of service areas."

Which sort of explains why Crapita are such a laughing stock...

[original PM]

Which sort of explains why Crapita are such a laughing stock...

Indeed - a whole ten weeks training to then go into a large company and try and tell the board how to do their big transformation project.

[vetran]

Indeed - a whole ten weeks training to then go into a large company and try and tell the board how to do their big transformation project.

you think its too much training to outshine the board?

When you see how poor the outcomes frequently are, sometimes you wonder if a paralytic amoeba could do a better job.

last week I saw the "backup, what backup?" farce play out. Hmm well done server ops flops!

[TwoWolves]

you think its too much training to outshine the board?

When you see how poor the outcomes frequently are, sometimes you wonder if a paralytic amoeba could do a better job.

last week I saw the "backup, what backup?" farce play out. Hmm well done server ops flops!

You're working with Capita? Where?

[vetran]

You're working with Capita? Where?

nah the big boys would have let the server & backup be stolen from the secure data centre (aka as a small shed on a retail park).

I still laugh at when "big screw" handed over a bunch of servers with more disk taken up by viruses than operating system.

The structured cabling with eenie, meenie minie...... in which ffing port does this go? Because the labels are wrong!

etc....


It was just that the C levels felt that the expense of backup was unnecessary. Its like working with Scooter.