In addition to filing your overstated offer letter claim you should talk to your attorney about whether adding an Overtime Wage claim could make sense.
Comcast classifies Enterprise Account Executives as exempt employees.
The benefit to Comcast is that EAE’s are not entitled to overtime no matter how many hours they work. (my boss regularly said, “This isn’t a 40-hour per week job if you want to succeed”.
The first-year reality is that most of the time is spent in the office, on the phone, or on the computer sending emails. Trips out of the office to client meetings take less than 20% of an average week. Canvassing maybe another 20%. One could argue that EAE’s are inside salespeople who occasionally leave the office for meetings.
The fact that most EAE’s will make less than 50% of their compensation in commissions bolsters this claim that EAE’s should not be exempt.
Should you prevail in this claim, you would be owed a multiple on your overtime hours, and Comcast would be on the hook for your attorney fees.
It’s worth investigating as your payout could be substantial if you get paid for all your overtime.
So discuss the laws of your state with your employment attorney to see if this could apply to you. You can find out more about the laws related to overtime pay at WorkplaceFairness.org http://www.workplacefairness.org/complaint-pay
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*If you were in another company, you’d probably join with the scores of others in the same situation and file a class action lawsuit, but you can’t because Comcast took away that right of yours when you went to work for them.