Hi
I have this clause in my contract and my understanding to it is diffrent from what the agent telling me.

I want to see how do you understand it, to see if i am wrong or not.
so please tell me how did you understand this

"Any costs associated with conducting a handover to the Employee's successor shall be the liability of
the Employee."

What do you do firstly.

Computer Programmer

can anyone help?

I am not a lawyer but potentially they could recruit someone from the other side of the world, fly them over first class put them up in a 5 star hotel and make you pay for it. In practice, though, I have never heard of anything like that and I doubt it would come to anything.

Take professional advice on this one

That suggests to me that on leaving you would have to handover to your successor and you won't get paid for your time! Sounds a little unreasonable but I can't think what costs other than time there would be for a handover.

Cross it out, and get the agent to write his understanding.. no confusion then. It looks a bit ropey without

I wouldn't sign any employment contract that would leave me open to having to pay to resign... which is what it looks like...

My interpretation is that if the new person didn't understand what you'd done in a programe you'd be legally obliged to explain it to him.... with no pay and no time limit to when they could contact you....
Don't bother with the agent, consult an aussie employment lawyer, with the new workplace agreements you can't be too careful!

You're not a slave!!! You shouldn't have to 'pay' for your freedom!!!


Ali

Is this maybe to do with your visa? Is your employer sponsoring you? Are they maybe saying that if you leave before your time is up, you will have to pay to transfer you sponsorship to a different employer?

I am Australian citizen

Thanks all for your help. this really helped so much
appreciate all your help