What is the name of your state? Texas
I did some contractor work for an agency to manages foreign exchange students from high school where they offered me $200 to go to fours houses kids were staying at and inspect them for safety and complete a report and I filled out an W9 form.
Last week, I received an email with instructions on how to get paid and when I reopened it again on Sunday, December 9th, the instructions were that in order to get paid you need to register an account on a 3rd party app and put in your bank account information and they had a link that connected us with their company for payment upon completion.
However, at the bottom it stated the terms and conditions were that if we didn't register by December 11th at the latest, they would consider that as us not being reachable and all money earned would be forfeited.
I was on time and I had the deposit initiated to my bank account, but for others who had overlooked the email, is it technically legal to make those terms and conditions after they did the work they were promised to be paid to do and filled out the tax form along with it that they won't pay them if they don't register on an app in less than a week, and after they'll lose the money they earned?
I can see this being brought to court should someone have been owed a lot more than the $200 I made.
I did some contractor work for an agency to manages foreign exchange students from high school where they offered me $200 to go to fours houses kids were staying at and inspect them for safety and complete a report and I filled out an W9 form.
Last week, I received an email with instructions on how to get paid and when I reopened it again on Sunday, December 9th, the instructions were that in order to get paid you need to register an account on a 3rd party app and put in your bank account information and they had a link that connected us with their company for payment upon completion.
However, at the bottom it stated the terms and conditions were that if we didn't register by December 11th at the latest, they would consider that as us not being reachable and all money earned would be forfeited.
I was on time and I had the deposit initiated to my bank account, but for others who had overlooked the email, is it technically legal to make those terms and conditions after they did the work they were promised to be paid to do and filled out the tax form along with it that they won't pay them if they don't register on an app in less than a week, and after they'll lose the money they earned?
I can see this being brought to court should someone have been owed a lot more than the $200 I made.