Pre-reg contract case settled

An optometrist has agreed to pay £6,150 to Scrivens Opticians after the optical chain took legal action over pre-reg training costs when she left after 15 months.

Marium Hayat agreed to settle the dispute moments before a trial at Walsall County Court was due to commence last week and will pay the money back over 12 monthly instalments.

Hayat completed her pre-reg training at a Scrivens practice near Wolverhampton in 2011 before being offered a job with the company in Burslem, Staffordshire. She said she took the job believing it was a two-week trial and left after this time because the commute and cost of travel was too much from Wolverhampton.