All Questions and Answers about Employment Law

Discriminatory/Voluntary Termination
I was recently laid-off from a company and was told that job my job was going to another department. Before I left they hired a temp to do my job and that temp is no longer there but now there is a ne...
1 answer  |  asked May 12, 2004 5:39 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

NSF paychecks getting to be a habit
My employer (a lawyer) keeps issuing me bad paychecks drawn on his attorney business account. When I take my weekly paycheck to his bank to cash it (I no longer take a chance on depositing it to my ch...
2 answers  |  asked May 8, 2004 2:52 PM [EST]  |  applies to Pennsylvania

Terminating an employment contract
I signed a contract for an employment starting in a future date. Due to family reasons I decided not to take up that job and sent them a notice of withdrawal almost 3 months before the start date of t...
1 answer  |  asked May 5, 2004 10:21 PM [EST]  |  applies to New York

Refusing to pay Commissions
I resently resigned from a company and they are typically months late on paying out commissions. There are 2 issues, one is that they made a mistake on my Q1 commissions and agreed verbally to correct...
1 answer  |  asked May 5, 2004 6:21 PM [EST]  |  applies to Texas

My company sold to another am I still bound
I signed a noncompete with my company. They where based in South Carolina and I was a remote employee with a home office in Arizona. I reported to another Arizona remote employee. My company was priva...
1 answer  |  asked May 5, 2004 10:46 AM [EST]  |  applies to Arizona

illegal action voids non compete?
A few weeks ago, my company began withholding checks from me. This has gone on for the last three weeks due to collection issues with some of my clients. I am a commision only employee. since that tim...
1 answer  |  asked May 1, 2004 12:01 AM [EST]  |  applies to Indiana

found recording in the boss's desk
My supervisor taped a recording of a conversation he had with my co worker. We don't trust our supervisor, and when he left work today, I snooped around his desk and found the audio recorder in the to...
1 answer  |  asked Apr 30, 2004 4:31 PM [EST]  |  applies to Pennsylvania

Afraid Employer Will try to screw me out of bonus earned
I am a grant writer for a non profit. I am paid hourly and also on a Grant Writer/Incentive Bonus plan, which I have a copy of. The terms are that I would be paid on a percentage 2%, 3% and 10%(with a...
1 answer  |  asked Apr 30, 2004 1:29 PM [EST]  |  applies to Indiana

OT - Multiple Rates
In a day, our crews usually work multiple job sites and may work in different capacities. My question is "Do we have to pay a 'weighted' average when time runs over into the overtime hours and there h...
1 answer  |  asked Apr 30, 2004 11:27 AM [EST]  |  applies to California

Severance pay and salary: "double dipping"?
My company was recently sold, and I was laid off with no notice. However, my final check included two weeks salary that was designated as "severance pay". During the following two weeks, I continued w...
1 answer  |  asked Apr 30, 2004 10:09 AM [EST]  |  applies to Texas