What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Arkansas needing to Sue in Tennessee
We are a commercial Janitorial service. We recently subcontracted some retail store accounts with a national contractor out of Tennessee. We agreed nd signed the terms of their written contract since it made sense at the time. The signed contract stipulated that there would be no modifications to the agreement or the payment thereof unless agreed upon in writing by both parties.
We signed an Exhibit that agreed to a lump sum payout of x dollars per month for all these services...
1. General Cleaning 3 days a week
2. Stripping waxing floors
3. Cleaning Carpets
4. We were also required to supply all cleaning supplies, equipment, including all tissue paper, trash bags, paper towels, etc.
None of these items were itemized. One monthly lump sum for services. The contract does not call for any rite to reduce the payment.
3 months into the agreement, we were asked to longer provide tissue paper, paper towels, trash bags as they are going to start purchasing them from someone else. This was a company wide decision, all cleaners nationally complied.
We never signed an ammendment. We never agreed to a rduction in pay, as there was no possible way to determine the cost of supplies and properly deduct them from the invoice, because there was no itemization of these items in the original agreement.
We continue to bill them (for Janitorial services) as we always have done none of the services billed have been for restroom supplies. They reduce the payment to us of 120.00 saying we no longer provided supplies and therefore the paymeny needed to us needed to be reduced.
They still owe us now nearly 1,500.00 and they are threatening not to pay us any money for our services now. They are avoiding our phone calls, the last conversation we had the owner of the company hung up the phone on me. Do I have a case?
We are a commercial Janitorial service. We recently subcontracted some retail store accounts with a national contractor out of Tennessee. We agreed nd signed the terms of their written contract since it made sense at the time. The signed contract stipulated that there would be no modifications to the agreement or the payment thereof unless agreed upon in writing by both parties.
We signed an Exhibit that agreed to a lump sum payout of x dollars per month for all these services...
1. General Cleaning 3 days a week
2. Stripping waxing floors
3. Cleaning Carpets
4. We were also required to supply all cleaning supplies, equipment, including all tissue paper, trash bags, paper towels, etc.
None of these items were itemized. One monthly lump sum for services. The contract does not call for any rite to reduce the payment.
3 months into the agreement, we were asked to longer provide tissue paper, paper towels, trash bags as they are going to start purchasing them from someone else. This was a company wide decision, all cleaners nationally complied.
We never signed an ammendment. We never agreed to a rduction in pay, as there was no possible way to determine the cost of supplies and properly deduct them from the invoice, because there was no itemization of these items in the original agreement.
We continue to bill them (for Janitorial services) as we always have done none of the services billed have been for restroom supplies. They reduce the payment to us of 120.00 saying we no longer provided supplies and therefore the paymeny needed to us needed to be reduced.
They still owe us now nearly 1,500.00 and they are threatening not to pay us any money for our services now. They are avoiding our phone calls, the last conversation we had the owner of the company hung up the phone on me. Do I have a case?
