New England retail chain Jordan’s Furniture must pay workers $10 million after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday found its payment plan for commission employees runs afoul of the court’s recent interpretation of state wage laws.
The furniture retailer’s payment plan doesn’t comply with the Supreme Judicial Court’s landmark 2019 decision in Sullivan v. Sleepy’s, which found that commission workers must receive separate and additional overtime and Sunday pay.
Jordan’s system subtracted a recoverable draw—a sum of money it pays sales employees upfront for their hours worked, including overtime and Sunday pay—from the commissions they earned the prior ...
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