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Forfiture of commissions upon voluntary termination
In Texas, is an employment agreement provision calling for the forfiture of earned but unpaid sales commissions upon voluntary termination of employment legal? Specifics: Texas work-from-home rep of C...
2 answers  |  asked Jul 6, 2002 4:32 PM [EST]  |  applies to Texas

Slander
I'm a senior special agent with the Dept. of Treasury. Myself, along with Union reps want to go to the media to expose fraud, waste and abuse in our building, particularly by the vindictive, unethical...
1 answer  |  asked Jul 5, 2002 11:42 PM [EST]  |  applies to Vermont

Fired for having an accident
I worked for a Private Carting/Sanitation Company. I was fired for having an accident with the truck while working. A police report was not made. My boss made me return to finish my route after the ac...
1 answer  |  asked Jul 5, 2002 4:43 PM [EST]  |  applies to New York

Retaliation?
I filed an internal grievance and a charge of gender discrimination with EEOC against the state agency that I work for. I am in the process of trying to find another job and I recently found out that ...
1 answer  |  asked Jul 5, 2002 3:12 PM [EST]  |  applies to Arizona

Discrimination
Recently I was an employee for a company. I gave my two week notice and went to a job that I thought was a better offer. I had been with the previous company for three years. They asked me to return s...
1 answer  |  asked Jul 2, 2002 11:06 PM [EST]  |  applies to Illinois

Can you force comission employees to work OT?
I work for a debt consolidation agency where I was originally hired as a " comission only " employee. Due to the fact that some weeks, there are some employees that DO NOT acquire any deals the employ...
1 answer  |  asked Jul 1, 2002 9:24 PM [EST]  |  applies to Florida

Company took another employees word over mine because she protected status and I am not
I was working for a non-profit oranization as a store manager. I was going to disipline a supervisor for attendance, whe she stated "Go ahead I"ll tell the main office that you called me a stupid B---...
1 answer  |  asked Jun 30, 2002 3:43 PM [EST]  |  applies to Oregon

Salary employee but treated as an hourly employee
I worked for this firm for three years. When I started working I was paid by the hour then in February 2000 I received a raise and I was told I will be a salary employee and I will not be paid overtim...
1 answer  |  asked Jun 30, 2002 12:24 AM [EST]  |  applies to New York

Threat in the workplace and ADA
My sister encountered an interesting situation at work. She worked for a manager who tormented his employees in fact when she joined the team two members of the team left to pursue other opportunities...
1 answer  |  asked Jun 27, 2002 10:25 PM [EST]  |  applies to Texas

arbitration agreements
Hi I am Employed at a major Electronics company. I have been working here for about a 1 1/2 years and on Thursday June 20th 2002 at 11:56am I was called into my managers office at the City of Industry...
1 answer  |  asked Jun 26, 2002 7:26 PM [EST]  |  applies to California