BrightStar Worker’s Salary Guaranteed Despite Covid-19 Furlough

BrightStar International Corp. must pay a former employee $141,370 in unpaid salary he is owed under his employment contract even though it placed him and other employees on unpaid leave because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Middle District of Tennessee ruled.

Tyler Miller had an employment agreement with BrightStar that set his salary at $200,000 annually and guaranteed he would be paid unless he was terminated for cause or resigned without good reason, the court said. The company had to keep paying Miller if he was fired without cause or resigned for good reason until the earliest of the four-year ...