Q: Can a company unilaterally withhold 100% commission due from a 1099 employee?
I made a mistake on a spreadsheet which caused pricing to be off by a few percent. I submitted the pricing sheet to the company. The company uploaded into their system and then approved all Purchase Orders from customers with the mistaken pricing (I did not approve any PO's). The company is now withholding all of my commission to pay back the difference unrealized by the pricing error. Is that legal? It is my only source of income and they unilaterally arent paying me despite them having received the pricing sheet before the customers placed a single order and then further approving every PO with the pricing on it. We only have a verbal agreement in place for past 8 years with no mention of liability.
A: It depends on your agreement, which it appears in itself might be hard to prove.
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