Employee Compensation Claims

Employee Compensation Claims

Susswein Law has substantial experience in representing and advising executives and employees at all points of the employment relationship in protecting their rights to earned compensation.

A compensation dispute may arise in the context of a bonus incentive scheme, a commission plan, a deferred compensation plan, an employment agreement and compensation due under a Company change of control agreement.

Regardless of the type of compensation you are owed, you do have rights, where your former employer fails to live up to its obligations.

Susswein Law has a long history of negotiating and litigating compensation disputes that commonly arise in the employment relationship. Many of these cases involve disputes over:

• The failure to pay earned incentive compensation, bonuses or commissions;
• Wrongful discharge;
• Breach of contractual obligations under an employment agreement;
• Termination without cause;
• Fraudulent inducement in the hiring process;
• Improper divestiture of long-term deferred compensation,
• Improper denial of severance payments owed due to a change of company control; and
• Wrongful denial of earned wages under state wage laws.

We regularly negotiate beneficial settlements on behalf of clients. And, when negotiation is not an option, we aggressively pursue litigated results by employing dynamic and aggressive legal strategies in a host of venues, including federal and state courts, and arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association, Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

You have legal options

Compensation claims and severance agreements are often complex. Appropriate legal representation during the negotiation of your separation may provide additional leverage when negotiating specific post-employment options and financial terms. If you have questions regarding your rights during post-employment contract negotiations, let’s discuss your options and the remedies available to you by law.