Vandendries v. General Motors Corp.

Plaintiff, Joseph C. Vandendries, a long-time hourly rated employee of the Grand Blanc Fisher Body Plant of defendant, General Motors Corporation (GMC), was promoted in 1968 to a supervisory position, for which he was paid a salary on a monthly basis.

After 1968, the facts are in dispute. Plaintiff claims that in 1968 he started performing the duties of a general shift foreman, although he only was paid the salary of a maintenance supervisor, because he was promised that he would be appointed to fill what he felt was a vacancy in the position of a general shift foreman. Plaintiff says that in…