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Dunadan019
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ok bear with me as I give you the background. This story takes place in pennsylvania.
My cousin is an airplane mechanic (he has a 4 year degree in aircraft maitenence and is A&P certified. he even has his solo pilots liscence and partly owns 2 planes). he worked for a piddly amount of money for the same airport as his father (also a mechanic). he got tired of getting paid little to no money at his current job and put his resume up on a job finding site specific to aircraft maitenence jobs. He didn't wait too long until he got a hit from a subsidiary company of a major helicopter and airplane manufacturer that was located about 3-4 hours away from him. the Job offered twice the salary he was currently getting so he had the lady who contacted him send him the information.
The job was for a manufacturing position putting together airframes and generally doing things he was trained to do and has been doing at this airport for the past 3 years. There was no engine work but that was ok with him. The job was offered and he accepted.
Only then did he realize that he wasn't dealing directly with the company that had the job but with their farmed out HR department that did recruiting for said company. both he and I thought this was still fine as the lady had sent him all of the normal forms for hiring including tax information, drug tests, direct deposit information and employee agreements. they also sent him a list of aircraft maitenence tools that he would be required to have for the job. since he didn't own most of them himself, he went out and spent 1500 dollars on tools. they were tools he was currently using anyway (and it is the norm to own your own tools as an airplane mechanic) so he thought nothing of it. he then went to get a drug test and sent them the results (he had to pay for the test).
still, we all thought it was fine and even took the time to verify things like hours of work, days per week, expected length of the job, overtime rates, any other miscellaneous requirements and every other question we could ask this lady. on the topic of miscellaneous requirements, we were told that the first day would include a short placement test to determine where he would work. we directly asked her if doing poorly on the test would result in him being fired on the first day. the answer was no. as such, he went down there a couple times looking for a place to live and even visited the site where he would work. On his last trip down there, he paid for a month rental of a furnished room and waited to start.
today was his first day and he just called me to tell me that the short placement test was an 8 hour written and practical exam that he was taking along with 3 other people (each of them having 30-35 years experience). They covered pretty much every skill that he ever had to use as far as airframes are involved. Still, he did well, he got the best score of all 4 people with an 84%. then the man administering the test told all of them that the company required an 89% or better for the (singular) job in question and would all have to be let go.
obviously confused, my cousin called the woman who had offered him the job and she told him she would look into it. she called him back an hour later saying there was nothing she could do.
Now, I already told him that even if he could somehow fight the decision, he shouldn't try as the company wouldn't appreciate it and would make his life hell if he worked there.
My questions are:
What (and I know you all aren't lawyers) legal recourse, if any, can he take to recoup the money he spent on tooling, travel and lodging that he spent while being led to believe he had been hired?
Who should he report the shady recruitment tactics to? BBB and the large company that this was a subsidiary of?
My cousin is an airplane mechanic (he has a 4 year degree in aircraft maitenence and is A&P certified. he even has his solo pilots liscence and partly owns 2 planes). he worked for a piddly amount of money for the same airport as his father (also a mechanic). he got tired of getting paid little to no money at his current job and put his resume up on a job finding site specific to aircraft maitenence jobs. He didn't wait too long until he got a hit from a subsidiary company of a major helicopter and airplane manufacturer that was located about 3-4 hours away from him. the Job offered twice the salary he was currently getting so he had the lady who contacted him send him the information.
The job was for a manufacturing position putting together airframes and generally doing things he was trained to do and has been doing at this airport for the past 3 years. There was no engine work but that was ok with him. The job was offered and he accepted.
Only then did he realize that he wasn't dealing directly with the company that had the job but with their farmed out HR department that did recruiting for said company. both he and I thought this was still fine as the lady had sent him all of the normal forms for hiring including tax information, drug tests, direct deposit information and employee agreements. they also sent him a list of aircraft maitenence tools that he would be required to have for the job. since he didn't own most of them himself, he went out and spent 1500 dollars on tools. they were tools he was currently using anyway (and it is the norm to own your own tools as an airplane mechanic) so he thought nothing of it. he then went to get a drug test and sent them the results (he had to pay for the test).
still, we all thought it was fine and even took the time to verify things like hours of work, days per week, expected length of the job, overtime rates, any other miscellaneous requirements and every other question we could ask this lady. on the topic of miscellaneous requirements, we were told that the first day would include a short placement test to determine where he would work. we directly asked her if doing poorly on the test would result in him being fired on the first day. the answer was no. as such, he went down there a couple times looking for a place to live and even visited the site where he would work. On his last trip down there, he paid for a month rental of a furnished room and waited to start.
today was his first day and he just called me to tell me that the short placement test was an 8 hour written and practical exam that he was taking along with 3 other people (each of them having 30-35 years experience). They covered pretty much every skill that he ever had to use as far as airframes are involved. Still, he did well, he got the best score of all 4 people with an 84%. then the man administering the test told all of them that the company required an 89% or better for the (singular) job in question and would all have to be let go.
obviously confused, my cousin called the woman who had offered him the job and she told him she would look into it. she called him back an hour later saying there was nothing she could do.
Now, I already told him that even if he could somehow fight the decision, he shouldn't try as the company wouldn't appreciate it and would make his life hell if he worked there.
My questions are:
What (and I know you all aren't lawyers) legal recourse, if any, can he take to recoup the money he spent on tooling, travel and lodging that he spent while being led to believe he had been hired?
Who should he report the shady recruitment tactics to? BBB and the large company that this was a subsidiary of?
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also, he signed many different forms....
Honestly not much to do, other than contact the maintenance company and let them know in a polite way how he was treated. See if he can get a hold of the HR person at the company - use their web site, or LinkedIn, or if he knows anyone who knows someone, etc.
But recruiters being deliberately misleading to candidates, or the company, or both in order to max out the number of possible hires? My wife worked in our HR department for a while, and as far as I can tell that's pretty much SOP. The company may not know how the recruiting company is treating potential hires, so you should definitely try to let them know. Don't expect that he'll get a job out of it, just that the sleazy assholes that lied to your cousin may get slapped down.
Do you have any forms that have the job offer?