I do not know where to start on explaining this, but I will try and only ask the question and hope someone can please advise. I have been working for a company of 13 employees as of today and had sexual relations with the president for a year. Of course its all going sour and all I want to do is leave but he will not pay me for my commissions? What do I do?

You do this legally, as those commissions are yours. The sexual history should have no part in this; maybe it does but it should not. Is your boss the company president? Can you go to someone higher up about receiving your commissions? Are you a contracted personnel? If so, what is in your employment contract? Or even your employement agreement or terms of employment? What about talking to your HR Department - they deal with benefits and payouts.

Too bad you are in this predicament. Hope you get your monies and get this behind you and go forward.

Thank you for the quick response. Since we are a company of only 13 employees my boss is him and he is the owner and president of the company. I am unable to go hire up for it was him I was to trust. I don't know how to do it legally since when he promoted me he didn't put it on paper. He made sure he never supplied documentation of the commissions he said he would give me. I asked him to supply it over to me but some how it was never sent to me. I did not pressure him at the time for I wasn't concerned about the income. My main priority to me as a project manager and the strategic consultant was to bring in more clients and to follow all the way through as their point of contact until completion.

When he started to treat me the worst way on a business level and I became very sick (physically), and highly stress out I tried to inform him that I don't believe I am a good fit for this company and would appreciate my commissions as I will leave ASAP. He said NO and I don't have any commissions.

I don't have much documentation as you can see, but I have my word and my work and proof with my name on the proposals and business cards, etc proving I in fact was the person in charge of bringing in sales.

I am not a contracted person, I was hired by him originally to be the project coordinator (that is documented) 3 months later I was promoted to Project Manager Handing our BIGGEST client alone. Once I proved my success he asked me to be the Sales Manager for the company as ours was leaving at the time. Unfortunately there is no HR department either.

Any ideas?

Unj

I feel so bad for you. You are in a tough situation. You might just have to contact an attorney versed in employment relations. I wonder if the EEOC would take a look at this. They helped me once with a workplace sexual harassment case, and won too. It would not hurt to at least ask them.

EEOC - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Wishing you the best of all in this. Hopefully someone else will come and post some more helpful information to you.

If they owe you commission, there will be some written job description, all companies are suppoe to have them. Next there should be a history or past payments of commission, and a record of what you sold that should get your commissions, you sue for those commissions.

First, have you ever gotten paid commissions at this company? If not, if there is no paper trail of your promotion and pay structure, this is going to get very messy, since I can easily see him lying and saying he never promised any of that, and you are just trying to extort money from him since the relationship went bad.

And some advice for the future: never have sex with someone in your chain of command (either above or below your rank). Especially in a company that small... it's almost impossible for it not to smell like sexual harrassment/sleeping your way to the top, depending on who you talk to at the company.