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author: kadie foppiano
place: chicago
e-mail: [email protected]
question: I worked at a retail store where the owner and i had a verbal
agreement that i would do all the graphic design work for the store,
outside of work time, and if i did any on work time we would deduct my
hourly wage from whatever pay we decided on for each project i did. I
got fired, after two years, just two weeks after i recieved a raise (for
doing so many great things for the store),because my boss decide she
needed to "restructure" the store, and since she knew i was looking for
other work( actually a rumor by another employee)she let me go, with two
weeks severance pay to cover me while i searched for another job. i
called her the following day, after i got over the shock, and asked her
about the money she owed me for the graphic design work i did on the
side. she told me to send her an invoice and she would send me a check.
one month later, i emailed her asking where the mnoney was, and she said
she never got the invoice. however, i know she did get it because my
friend works there and handed it to the boss herself. two weeks later i
e mailed her and asked her where the money was, and she replied that she
"had spoken with her lawyer, and since i was an hourly employee, she
neither had the obligation or the intention on sending me the money".
however, this money is for work done outside of my hourly employee hours
and wages, and we had a verbal agreement. i am just curious if i have a
case or not? thanks so much.
place: chicago
e-mail: [email protected]
question: I worked at a retail store where the owner and i had a verbal
agreement that i would do all the graphic design work for the store,
outside of work time, and if i did any on work time we would deduct my
hourly wage from whatever pay we decided on for each project i did. I
got fired, after two years, just two weeks after i recieved a raise (for
doing so many great things for the store),because my boss decide she
needed to "restructure" the store, and since she knew i was looking for
other work( actually a rumor by another employee)she let me go, with two
weeks severance pay to cover me while i searched for another job. i
called her the following day, after i got over the shock, and asked her
about the money she owed me for the graphic design work i did on the
side. she told me to send her an invoice and she would send me a check.
one month later, i emailed her asking where the mnoney was, and she said
she never got the invoice. however, i know she did get it because my
friend works there and handed it to the boss herself. two weeks later i
e mailed her and asked her where the money was, and she replied that she
"had spoken with her lawyer, and since i was an hourly employee, she
neither had the obligation or the intention on sending me the money".
however, this money is for work done outside of my hourly employee hours
and wages, and we had a verbal agreement. i am just curious if i have a
case or not? thanks so much.