What is the name of your state? NEW YORK STATE
During my employment with company "XXX" I was approached by a new start up company "YYY", in the same skilled trades area that was formed by former employees of "XXX"., therefore making the two companies competitors in this field. I was becoming dissatisfied in my own mind with "XXX" because of the amount of travel, stress, etc. that came with the position. Therefore, I entertained the new proposal from the new company "YYY". We had a small meeting between myself, another person who was going to join on, with the same circumstances as myself, (however he had his own business,again in the same field of trade). and the 2 officers of the company. During the meeting it was discussed how we were going to go about doing business, keeping the stress levels down, pursuing more local work ,thus reducing travel, along with certain benefits that would be provided. The benefits discussed were, family health insurance coverage,401k plan,and vacation time of 3 weeks to start, and our weekly salary compensation. I deceided as did the other person to join on with new company "YYY" and left my other job, and the other person put his business on hold to join on. As the months progressed and we brought new customers on and started growing the business, mostly due to mine and the other employee reputation. One morning we were called into a McDonalds rest. and terminated by our new employer "YYY" on the fact of suspicions that we were doing business for the other employees company onhold while on "yyy' company time. This was totally false and there is no proof found on that statement, in fact it was just the opposite as we promoted the new YYY company. However the termination took place. During the time employed with new company"YYY" the benefits that were initially discussed at the offer meeting withstood and I had family health coverage and a 401k plan in place. However when it xcame to the unused vacation pay they refused to pay this amount we agreed on as 3 weeks to start. This as well as any of the above was never written or signed by anyone and no company policy was in place. The employers reasoning for not paying the full unused vacation was that he stated it was 3 weeks per year vacation. I was allowed to take 1 week of this said vacation after the very first week of my new employment and was paid for it. Now as i requested my 2 weeks unused vac, pay they said they prorated it with some formula allowing me only 1 day ? Can you help me out here when all this verbal promise has been made and the vacation portion is now being made up as they go along, has their actions supported a 3 week to start vacation if i was allowed to take that vacation immediately ? Also the other employee was treated in the same fashion, is there anything about compensation for his company on hold to join this company and his lost business ? Also it was asked of me to see my previous customer list from "xxx" company and it was never returned to me, they are standing by their referance to employment "at will" Thank You
During my employment with company "XXX" I was approached by a new start up company "YYY", in the same skilled trades area that was formed by former employees of "XXX"., therefore making the two companies competitors in this field. I was becoming dissatisfied in my own mind with "XXX" because of the amount of travel, stress, etc. that came with the position. Therefore, I entertained the new proposal from the new company "YYY". We had a small meeting between myself, another person who was going to join on, with the same circumstances as myself, (however he had his own business,again in the same field of trade). and the 2 officers of the company. During the meeting it was discussed how we were going to go about doing business, keeping the stress levels down, pursuing more local work ,thus reducing travel, along with certain benefits that would be provided. The benefits discussed were, family health insurance coverage,401k plan,and vacation time of 3 weeks to start, and our weekly salary compensation. I deceided as did the other person to join on with new company "YYY" and left my other job, and the other person put his business on hold to join on. As the months progressed and we brought new customers on and started growing the business, mostly due to mine and the other employee reputation. One morning we were called into a McDonalds rest. and terminated by our new employer "YYY" on the fact of suspicions that we were doing business for the other employees company onhold while on "yyy' company time. This was totally false and there is no proof found on that statement, in fact it was just the opposite as we promoted the new YYY company. However the termination took place. During the time employed with new company"YYY" the benefits that were initially discussed at the offer meeting withstood and I had family health coverage and a 401k plan in place. However when it xcame to the unused vacation pay they refused to pay this amount we agreed on as 3 weeks to start. This as well as any of the above was never written or signed by anyone and no company policy was in place. The employers reasoning for not paying the full unused vacation was that he stated it was 3 weeks per year vacation. I was allowed to take 1 week of this said vacation after the very first week of my new employment and was paid for it. Now as i requested my 2 weeks unused vac, pay they said they prorated it with some formula allowing me only 1 day ? Can you help me out here when all this verbal promise has been made and the vacation portion is now being made up as they go along, has their actions supported a 3 week to start vacation if i was allowed to take that vacation immediately ? Also the other employee was treated in the same fashion, is there anything about compensation for his company on hold to join this company and his lost business ? Also it was asked of me to see my previous customer list from "xxx" company and it was never returned to me, they are standing by their referance to employment "at will" Thank You
