Events Company Synergy Global Forum, Top Execs Hit with Sales Reps’ Wage and Hour Lawsuit

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Synergy Global Forum Inc., along with its CEO and human resources director, is facing a proposed class and collective action from two former sales representatives who allege they’re owed unpaid overtime wages, as well as promised commissions for ticket sales. 

The complaint says the defendants agreed to pay sales reps a flat salary plus commission for ticket sales, as well as $250 per day for working on Saturdays or Sundays. The case says sales reps were to earn a five percent commission on the price of each ticket sold to a particular event. For weeks in which an employee surpassed more than $10,000 in sales, the defendants were to increase the five percent commission to 10 percent of the price of each ticket.

The plaintiffs allege they regularly worked as many as 60 hours per week without being paid time-and-a-half overtime for all hours worked past 40. Moreover, the individuals claim the defendants’ sales reps were never provided with mandatory wage statements reflecting their rates of pay, hours worked, overtime pay rates or how commissions were actually calculated.

Per the lawsuit, the plaintiffs were supposedly informed by the two individual defendants on November 15, 2017 that they and their co-workers would not be receiving their full salaries or commissions. The plaintiffs allege they were never remitted final salary and commissions payments earned between November 16 and December 5, 2017.