Legal Question in Employment Law in Georgia
I worked in a small salon in GA. I am a cosmetologist, I work 50% commission. I am an employee, I get a paycheck and have taxes taken out. I no longer work there, in my last paycheck was a note stating it was less 95.00 due to a refund to a unsatisfied customer (which is 100% not 50%). I am not aware of an unsatisfied customer and called my employer to ask who was refunded- she refused to tell me. Is she allowed to keep my money? She also wrote on a separation notice -insubordination, theft of info. because I had my clients phone #'s. I signed no contract that my clients were not to follow me if I moved to another salon. That is their decision. Is this slander?
2 Answers from Attorneys
It's not slander.
Why would you think she should eat the $95 when you displease a customer? If you disagree with that you can go to court spend a couple hundred dollars in court costs and sue for $47.50, which you may or may not win, depending on what your written contract says (if you don't have one, you have an even harder case).
The fact that you did not sign a contract does not mean you are free to take things like customer records. We don't know, because you did not tell us what you took or how you got the numbers. We also don't know the other side of any of the story. It may be well worth it for you to just move on and not start a battle.
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