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Can we ask departing employees to repay money expended for their professional development?

Q: Our workplace policy for employee professional development states that employees must repay the company for professional development expenses (e.g. the cost of a course) if they resign within 12 months of receiving the benefit. The policy says this may be deducted from the employee’s final pay. Since this is not in the employment contracts with our employees, are we able to enforce this?

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