contract-law employment alabama
Can I sue my job employer for false promises?
<p>My employer, a chain restaurant in Huntsville, Alabama, promoted me to shift leader where I ran and closed a store for 5-4 months expecting to be paid $10 per hour and was told I would be getting paid for training in the process. Turns out, I was getting paid only $7.25 an hour.  I was the lowest paid in the store even amongst the employees I was overseeing.</p>
<p>Once I found out I brought it to my manager's attention as well as the area coach's attention.  I had a meeting with the area coach. He verbally assured me that I would receive back pay after I completed the online serve safe course which I did and still wasn't compensated. That area coach resigned and the company says they won't give me back pay because they don't give back pay.</p>

<p>The law requires that your employer pay you the rate agreed or mandated by law. If they have underpaid you in the past they have to back pay you.</p>
<p>In promising you a raise to $10 and pay for the training, your manager or area coach made a commitment that is binding on the company. It doesn't matter if they were authorized by the company to make such an offer, they had <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_authority" rel="nofollow noreferrer">apparent authority</a> if it was reasonable for a person in your position to believe they had such authority. Since this came from both your immediate line manager and their manager it is completely reasonable.</p>
<p>You should talk to a lawyer or your union.</p>
