Dumas v. Auto Club Ins. Ass'n

This is not an action claiming wrongful discharge.1 None of the one hundred seventy-nine plaintiff sales representatives were discharged.2 It is, rather, an ordinary action claiming breach of contract for failure to pay agreed-upon compensation for services rendered and to be rendered.

The sales representatives rely solely on an express promise, concededly made before or at the time they were hired, to pay "a 7% commission on *561new sales and policy renewals.” They do not assert that they may recover on the basis of an implied promise arising out of "legitimate expectations.”

The same rules of…