USERRA

jeffmaughan

Question please,
USERRA allows workers to return to their employer following military service and Chase is one of the companies that is extending full pay and benefits to those deployed. Suppose an My question is, what about commissions a/o bonuses that an employee might have gotten on top of their regular salary if they were here? Should Chase consider paying these as well? How strong/valid is the arguement that "my peers got them, I would have got them, so I should get them too?"

Brad Forrister

Just my two cents, but I think you're already being pretty generous. I don't know what kind of commissions and bonuses you're talking about or how they're calculated, but if they're calculated on business produced by the employee, and the employee wasn't there to produce the business that would fund the commissions,...

Of course, if the business *was* generated by someone else, and they got commissions on it,...

And if you do give them commissions, are they based on what the employee did before he or she left, or on what others were able to do during their absence, when the economic conditions might have been different...

Sounds like a hornet's nest.

Brad Forrister
Director of Publishing
M. Lee Smith Publishers

jeffmaughan

Thanks Brad and yes, it would be commissions based on work produced. Hornets nest is right.