Klepper v. Ward
The complainant, a laid off executive, brought an action under the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law (WPCL) to recover damages resulting from wages, incentive payments, fringe benefits and stock options allegedly due under the last year of a 3-year employment contract. The arbitrator found that the complainant's employment with a New Jersey based firm at an executive level, supervising a staff of four or five persons engaged in support of national sales activities could not be seen as sufficient to cause the employer to respond to the Pennsylvania based remedy set forth in the WPCL.
