Legal Question in Employment Law in New Hampshire
Severance agreement not met
In October of 07 I was fired from my position, but negotiated a severance agreement. To date I am still waiting on two parts of that severance agreement to be paid. The first involves valid corporate expenses which the company agreed to pay, the 2nd was award money I am owed. At the end of Jan my expenses were still not paid so I paid them out of my own pocket. The company ended up paying them two weeks later leaving a credit on my corp. card but agreed to pay the credit about back to me when it showed. The credit showed in late feb and I have since been going going back and forth with my old boss regarding this. Mostly its me emailing or calling her and her ignoring them. I have ten emails to her for the past ten weeks. She only responded to one. I want my money back, is there anything I can do? Also is it worth suing because they violated my severance agreement?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Severance agreement not met
This sounds like the kind of situation that would respond well to an attorney on your behalf, making inquiry of the company and settling the details of the agreement quickly. Chances are, the brief involvement of an attorney would immediately get their attention and incentivize them to resolve this with you immediately.
If, during the atty review process, there were other grounds discovered for making a legal claim on the company, the atty could also do that for you by virtue of a Chapterm 93A letter, making legal demand under the consumer protection statute; which is a prerequisite to suit anyway.
On the brief information you supplied, I would think this could be wrapped up satisfactorily for you for relatively small expense. I would also seek to have the company reimburse any of your attorneys' fees, b/c it was their feet-dragging that forced you to retain an atty in the first place. They should be forced to pay your legal expense.
Feel free to contct me directly to discuss this further.
Related Questions & Answers
Looking for something else?
10,200 active attorneys ready to answer your legal questions today.
Featured Attorneys
Earn additional revenue and grow your business.
