After listening to oral arguments this week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Courtroom will resolve whether or not a New England-based furnishings retailer’s compensation plan for commissioned gross sales staff complied with its current findings underneath the state wage acts in Sullivan v. Sleepy’s.
Counsel for Jordan’s Furnishings appealed an $8.8 million judgment towards it after the decrease court docket discovered that the corporate violated the Massachusetts Additional time Statute, G. L. c. 151A, Part 1A, and the Wage Act, G. L. c 149, Sections 148 and 150, in an case introduced by a former gross sales guide, Matthew Sutton, on behalf of himself and practically 250 different staff.
