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Employer asking for potentially fraudulent “training costs”

I got a job as a Nurse in the Cosmetic industry thinking it was a score. Signed a contract allowing the employer to deduct fortnightly from my pay for 24months to cover training costs which are $12,000. I was in desperate need to get my foot into the cosmetic business and have a job (since I quit my other job prior to knowing about the training fees). Since signing and completing training a couple of months ago I’ve realised that this company is super dodgy. I believe they did not pay even close to 12k as products are given free to the company to use for training and the training is in house and not a real qualification. They call it an “Academy” but it is in reality just initial job training priced at a stupid 12k. Please help me with any advice on how to address this as I…


I got a job as a Nurse in the Cosmetic industry thinking it was a score. Signed a contract allowing the employer to deduct fortnightly from my pay for 24months to cover training costs which are $12,000. I was in desperate need to get my foot into the cosmetic business and have a job (since I quit my other job prior to knowing about the training fees). Since signing and completing training a couple of months ago I’ve realised that this company is super dodgy. I believe they did not pay even close to 12k as products are given free to the company to use for training and the training is in house and not a real qualification. They call it an “Academy” but it is in reality just initial job training priced at a stupid 12k. Please help me with any advice on how to address this as I am not paying 12k to a company who did not pay 12k to train me.

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