I did work for Ashley Furniture in Kelowna B.C, Canada from December 21 until now. The company was purchased by a company called TDG The Dufresne Group whom owns roughly 55 other Ashely Furniture locations throughout North America.
They had given us a contract in May when we were initially bought out that were identical to what we originally had but under the new TDG brand. They planned to swap over to their new systems and do a complete switch to TDG by October 1st.
Fast forward to last Saturday September 24th I come into work and they are forcing all staff to sign a contract the day before it's effective.
This contract states we go from $20/hr + 7% commission down to minimum wage + 2-4% commission. We lose roughly $4/hr and roughly 25-40% of all our commissions. They state that all our past sales will no longer be ours and that they keep them in house. Between our store alone we have roughly $55,000-$75,000 in commission payouts that haven't been paid out. (We get paid when the customer recieved the product)
The four stores in the Okanogan valley (B.C wine country) all have the same mandatory contract. With all four stores that got purchased by this nightmare company are in the same boat. They fired a few people on the spot for not signing the contract and plan on keeping everyone's hard earned commission instead of paying the staff out.
This is not only wrong and completely immoral but it's downright disgusting. Through the 4 stores this is happening to in my area they would be pocketing roughly $180,000 – $275,000 from every sales staff with commission that hasn't gone out yet.
Deplorable.