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Subject: Re: Is this company breaking the law with it's employees?
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> 
> Requiring reimbursement for moving expenses is pretty common. Somewhat less
> common, but also out there, are agreements where a company will pay for a
> graduate degree in return for a several year committment.

I may be wrong, but I believe that the Fourteenth amendment of the U.S.
constitution protects individuals from having to honor contracts like this.
This type of agreement is nothing more than indentured servitude.


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Greg Stevens, Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
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