Bonus earned
I was terminated from my job on Friday and was told I would be paid for earned wages, commissions and accrued vacation. However, my employer is refusing to pay a fair monetary value on a trip I earned during a contest which ended 8 days prior to my termination. My award had been announced publicly within the company, and my boss had even booked my airline ticket for the trip, which was scheduled for the weekend of Sept 13th. Since this trip was earned as a bonus, am I entitled to compensation for this trip?
1 answer | asked Aug 11, 2003 2:42 PM [EST] | applies to Arizona
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Wages include anything agreed to be paid
Arizona law defines wages as "nondiscretionary compensation due an employee in return for labor or services rendered by an employee for which the employee has a reasonable expectation to be paid, whether determined by a time, task, piece, commission or other method of calculation. Wages include sick pay, vacation pay, severance pay, commissions, bonuses and other amounts promised when the employer has a policy or practice of making such payments." ARS §23-350. The employer's promise of a trip seems to fit the last part of this definition, although you might need to prove that the employer "made a practice" of giving such awards.
If you cannot convince the employer to pay you, you can either make a claim with the labor department of the Industrial Commission of Arizona, ARS §23-356, or file a lawsuit seeking three times the amount wrongfully withheld. ARS §23-355. Good luck.
posted by Francis Fanning | Aug 11, 2003 4:05 PM [EST]
Arizona law defines wages as "nondiscretionary compensation due an employee in return for labor or services rendered by an employee for which the employee has a reasonable expectation to be paid, whether determined by a time, task, piece, commission or other method of calculation. Wages include sick pay, vacation pay, severance pay, commissions, bonuses and other amounts promised when the employer has a policy or practice of making such payments." ARS §23-350. The employer's promise of a trip seems to fit the last part of this definition, although you might need to prove that the employer "made a practice" of giving such awards.
If you cannot convince the employer to pay you, you can either make a claim with the labor department of the Industrial Commission of Arizona, ARS §23-356, or file a lawsuit seeking three times the amount wrongfully withheld. ARS §23-355. Good luck.
posted by Francis Fanning | Aug 11, 2003 4:05 PM [EST]
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