My boss is not paying me what we verbally agreed on and lied to me when I signed my contract, is there anything I can do?
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My boss is not paying me what we verbally agreed on and lied to me when I signed my contract, is there anything I can do?
When my boss and I first agreed on how much I would get paid we agreed on 12 and hour. When I was brought the contract she verbally explained it to me and once again said I was getting paid 12 an hour. Now that I am looking over the contract I see that instead of saying the hourly rate she put the full amount for the full year I work at a school and it adds up to be 10.75 an hour. I know I signed the contract so it is my fault for not double checking but I signed it under the assumption she was telling me the truth when she said it was 12 an hour.
Asked on December 2, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, New Jersey
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
An oral (that is the better term than "verbal") agreement is not binding on an employer, and is also overridden by any later-signed written contract. If you signed a written employment contract, all that matters is what was in the contract, not what was discussed or promised earlier; and if an employee does not have a written employment contract, then their pay is simply whatever the employer chooses to pay them, since they are in that case an "employee at will" and employees at will have no right to any particular pay and no control over what they are paid (it is 100% up to the employer).
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