It doesn't surprise me that employers are starting to not only make profit out of engineers work and then make the engineer pay for , in effect working for them as well.
It seems that employers have forgotten that the backbone of any company is their after sales service and it is the dedicated engineers that provide the extra income and " bread and butter " by looking after the customer and finding defects during the routine services.
After 30 years of being a part of it I have lost all faith in the industry when it costs an engineer to do the job that others profit from.