Broussard v. Arthur Dooley & Son, Inc.

JOHN S. COVINGTON, Judge.

In this suit for wages or commissions due, plaintiff appealed the judgment for defendant on plaintiff’s main demand and defendant appealed the judgment for plaintiff on defendant’s reconventional demand for overpayment of wages.

The primary issue is whether the trial court erred in concluding that the amounts in question were of the nature of bonus or incentive payments contingent upon plaintiff’s continued employment with defendant, rather than earned wages or commissions, and that the employer’s failure to give plaintiff these bonus payments upon his departure from…