Re: unknown company policy

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It appears you're an independent contractor -- not an
employee. So, why are you reading the employee manual? It
doesn't apply to you.

Read your contract that you signed. If the other side has
breached the contract, your remedy or remedies should be
spelled out in the contract. If not, then your remedy is to
sue for breach of contract.

On 11/26/06, Mary Ann wrote:
> I am a permanent contract worker at an accounting placement
> service.
>
> I recently turned down an assignment to work at a company
> that I had worked at before and didn't like working there.
> My superivsor knew before contacting me that I would not
> want to work at the company again. In the conversation
> about this assignment, I was told that if I didn't accept
> the assignment, that I would go unpaid until another
> assignment was found. I normally am paid my regular salary
> between assignments. I was told that this was company
> policy. I searched through the employee manual and found
> no such written company policy in the employee manual.
>
> Is it legal for a company to have a non written company
> policy that effects the compensation that an employee
> receives and has not informed the employee about until just
> moments before the employee has to make a decision about a
> new assignment?
>
> I am protesting this non-payment, but would like some
> knowledge on whether or not companies can have non written
> policies that are unknown by employees. I live in Texas.