Sabin v. Willamette-Western Corporation

This is an action by an employee against his former employer to recover vacation pay for four weeks, together with the sum of $91.62 deducted from wages for an I.O.U., and also to recover a penalty of 30 days’ wages under ORS 652.150 for wilful failure to pay both the vacation pay and the full amount due for wages, without that deduction. The trial court, sitting without a jury, found that plaintiff was entitled to vacation pay for two weeks and also a statutory penalty for wilful failure to pay wages in full, without the deduction of $91.62.

Defendant appeals from the resulting judgment,…