Employment Contract???

Has anyone ever heard of an employment contract where you are bound to a job for 2 years, and its not salaried? Its hourly pay...$12.00 an hour. Its not for me...my friend did sign one (so he says) and I was just wondering if there was a way out of it. For example, buying out the contract, or just quitting without real bad ramifications.

Yes. I was in a contract when the company relocated me to another state. They fired me 3 months later, so I got "out" of the contract. This was a salary position.

My current company was privately owned, and bought out by a large, public company. The top management (Vice Presidents and President) signed 3 year contracts.

For an hourly, $12/hr position, I don't see why a contract would be needed. That position could be replaced very easily.

Tell your friend to get fired. They will let her out of her contract.

if they have the right to fire yo uthen you have the right to quit. else it's not fair

Generally, those are jobs they have to train you for and they don't want to invest in your training, just to have you quit. If you stay for at least two years (or whatever) then they at least get their money's worth.

The point is to make sure you don't quit. So there must be stipulations surrounding getting out of the job. It all depends on the contract.

Yes companies are doing this, Bradford Scott contract is five years.

www.bradfordscott.com

This is nothing new, it's been happening for year when company invest alot of money in the employee so he can take a particular job

Easy way out would be to get fired. I have never heard of hourly contracts before now.

well he should have said no in the beginning so he would not have to be worried about it.

yes

yeah there's such a thing

he probably signed the contract that he couldn't work for a com-peter