What are my options to get paid if a businessthat Iworked for got paid but didn’t pay us?
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What are my options to get paid if a businessthat Iworked for got paid but didn’t pay us?
My sister, I, and another girl worked doing wine sampling modeling promotions for a woman. She has a reputation of this and has been charged. Its all over the internet. She gets paid from the distributor and doesn’t pay the models. She owes me $170, my sister over $500 and the other lady over $300. On-line it says she goes under other aliases. I have e-mails as proof. She has been harassing me in e-mail and jobs. What are our options?
Asked on July 13, 2010 under Employment Labor Law, Wisconsin
Answers:
M.T.G., Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
You can file a claim with the Department of Labor and with the State Attorney General's Office for starters. Then you can sue her in small claims court for the money that she owes all three of you. You have an employment contract. Do you have one in writing? How did she find you? Did she advertise? The terms of the advertisement could help support your contract. If you can make out all the elements of a contract of employment then you can sue her, even if the contract is oral rather than written. And since you all have the same story you have strength in numbers. Good luck to you all.
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