I’m a medical professional. Yes, I’m breaking a contract that said I would stay for a year. However, in the contract it says the penalties for breaking the contract would include “the cost of a white coat, prescription pads, business cards and other potential financial penalties”.
I wasn’t happy about breaking the contract, my spouse got a new job in another state, but was willing to pay the couple hundred bucks to cover the items the job purchased for me. My boss is now saying that the other undisclosed financial penalty is my last months wages. I’m hourly, so it’s a non salary position. My boss owns her own practice and calculates all the hours worked in a month and pays it out on the 15th of the next month.
I turned in my two weeks yesterday, and my boss (the Doctor) is saying I won’t be paid on the 15th as it is include in the “other penalties” that the contract mentions.
I’ve worked here for 6 months.
If I’m not getting paid for last months work, I highly doubt I’ll get paid for the two weeks notice I just put in. So, if I continue to work, it will be 6 weeks without pay, or 10-12K.
Edit: this is in Florida