Do You Feel Like it’s the End of the Road if You’ve Had to File For Unemployment?

I had a client that was working in sales for a company that owed her about $150,000 in commissions. She lives in a state that is heavily enmeshed in the automotive industry and where the unemployment level has just skyrocketed. Her company was also connected with this industry and because of that she ended up being laid off, but the company still owed her a considerable amount of money.

The main reason she hasn’t been paid her commission yet is that they really don’t have it; they came up with a plan to pay it out over a period of time, but this amount had really built up over a long period of time and she was starting to get worried about it.

She was in talks with them about how they were going to pay the outstanding amount, and they actually kind of avoided her for a few weeks before they came back with their news.

This is what they told her – that they had re-looked at her commissions and the agreement they had made with her, and decided that they had miscalculated everything. From their new perspective on the agreement, they should have been paying her on net profit rather than gross sales.

Now, I looked at her agreement with her and we saw that it was written very loosely, and this company has a history of having very vague sort of agreements where one person will agree to something and it won’t be given in writing – a lot of things like that – and of course my client was very upset about this.

Well, then they came back and basically told her that rather than them owing her these commissions, SHE actually owed THEM money, and that they would be contacting her within 30 days to resolve her debt to them. Read more