What does 'Additional Training' mean for an Expense Reduction Analysts franchisee?
Expense_Reduction_Analysts Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Your Practice Model Consultants must also undergo and complete the Franchisor's coaching and mentoring program, if offered by Franchisor, as specified in the ERA Manuals.
12.2 Further Training
- (1) From time to time, the Franchisor may provide training sessions and/or seminars for members of the ERA Network. Where external trainers are used, the Franchisor may charge a fee for providing such training sessions and seminars. You must attend, unless prevented by circumstances beyond Your reasonable control, those training sessions and seminars that the Franchisor deems are relevant to Your Business, and You must pay Your own costs in attending such training sessions and seminars.
- (2) The Franchisor may, as it deems appropriate in its discretion, develop Additional Training, and require You and Your Practice Model Consultants to attend such courses. The Franchisor will not require You to pay its applicable Training Fee in connection with any Additional Training that the Franchisor requires under this Section 12.2, or if such services are being provided to You remotely or online, or for meetings that You are required to attend at the Franchisor's support center, but You will be responsible for the costs and expenses incurred in connection with You and Your designated personnel attending such training, which may take place at a training facility that the Franchisor designates.
- (3) The Franchisor may also provide Additional Training or other on-site assistance at Your reasonable written request, subject to: (i) the schedule and availability of the Franchisor's training personnel; and (ii) Your payment to Franchisor of the applicable Training Fee for each trainer that is provided in connection with the requested Additional Training, as well as You covering the costs and expenses that such personnel incur in providing such training. The Franchisor will provide Additional Training under this Section 12.2 as it deems appropriate in its discretion.
- (4) The Franchisor may require You to attend Remedial Training that the Franchisor reasonably determines. You and appropriate personnel must undertake such Remedial training in response to (a) the failure of You or any other required personnel to sufficiently complete the Foundational Training Program or any type of Additional Training that the Franchisor requires under Section 12.2, or (b) Your failure to operate the Business in accordance with the terms of the Agreement after the Franchisor has provided You with written notice of such failure. The Franchisor reserves the right to charge its applicable Training Fee for any Remedial Training that is provided to You and/or Your personnel, and You must cover the costs and expenses incurred by the Franchisor and its personnel in providing such Remedial Training.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS (FDD pages 58–215)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Expense Reduction Analysts' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, 'Additional Training' refers to any extra or refresher courses that Expense Reduction Analysts might create at its own discretion. Franchisees and their Practice Model Consultants may be required to attend these courses.
While Expense Reduction Analysts won't charge a training fee for required Additional Training, especially if it's online, remote, or at their support center, franchisees are responsible for covering all costs and expenses for themselves and their personnel to attend. This includes travel and accommodation. Expense Reduction Analysts may also provide on-site Additional Training upon a franchisee's written request; however, this is subject to the availability of Expense Reduction Analysts' training personnel, and the franchisee will have to pay the applicable training fee and cover all associated costs and expenses for the trainers.
Expense Reduction Analysts also has the option to make Third-Party Training a part of any Additional Training. Franchisees must also attend training sessions and seminars that Expense Reduction Analysts deems relevant to their business and cover their own costs for attending. If a franchisee or their personnel fail to complete the Foundational Training Program or any required Additional Training sufficiently, Expense Reduction Analysts may require Remedial Training, and the franchisee may have to pay a training fee for this.