Wage Question - Please Help
Lori1
29 Posts
If you are a comissioned outside sales rep and your position was eliminated but your boss offered you a two week position at an hourly rate in the office,
can they legally only pay you for 6 days instead of 10 stating that the comission was still in effect until the end of the month even though you are no longer doing sales calls???
can they legally only pay you for 6 days instead of 10 stating that the comission was still in effect until the end of the month even though you are no longer doing sales calls???
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I don't know how the figure '6' enters the equation, but, let's ignore it. Your job was eliminated, you came off the road (so to speak) and you were offered a job for a ten day period at an hourly rate of pay. If you worked those ten days at the office job you were offered, then you're due the hourly rate for ten days. There's either a failure to communicate or you're getting the shaft.
Were you commission only, or did you receive some base pay also? Your base should end when the sales job ended. If you continued to receive some base pay until the end of the month, your boss might think he has already paid you through the end of the month and that is why he doesn't want to pay you "twice". What happened with other commissioned people who lost their jobs? Did they receive pay through the end of the month?
If you are commission only and no longer doing sales, obviously you won't be getting any more commissions so he needs to pay you for your office work.