Hi Everyone,
I have a question about a worker that I had working for me until today. I’m in American tourist here on vacation and I had a Haitian guy working on my land just taking care of the grass and pulling out the weeds and things like that. He worked for me for about 4 1/2 years I paid him in cash each week equivalent of 500 pesos a day or 12,000 pesos a month. He worked 5 hours a day. We are located in Las Terennas and Samana. Anyway we never had any kind of contract ..never anything in writing ever ..and now we have agreed that he’s going to stop working for me. He went to the office of the workers and gave me a paper saying that I have to pay him a liquidation fee which is like unemployment i
Basically my main concern is because we never had a contract and also because I am not a business I am just a private individual and he’s just cleaning the grass.
Anyway I talk to the guy a little bit and he said he’ll take a compromise he said he’ll take 50,000 pesos Instead of 86,000. instead of 86,000.
So my question is ..is this legal?
Do I need to pay this?
How much time do I have to pay this? how many days months? Etc.
Since he offered me a compromise of 50,000 pesos is there anything that I need to do to sort of make it legitimate that he is excepting 50,000 to close the case so that he can I try to come back at me later on and say I didn’t pay them completely? Or so he can’t say I didn’t pay him at all? I can send the money by Carribe express so it’s documented.
Anybody who can offer me any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
I am attaching a photo of the paper that he gave me but I have blocked out the names.
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Document from Minestro De Trabajo
Thank hou
I have a question about a worker that I had working for me until today. I’m in American tourist here on vacation and I had a Haitian guy working on my land just taking care of the grass and pulling out the weeds and things like that. He worked for me for about 4 1/2 years I paid him in cash each week equivalent of 500 pesos a day or 12,000 pesos a month. He worked 5 hours a day. We are located in Las Terennas and Samana. Anyway we never had any kind of contract ..never anything in writing ever ..and now we have agreed that he’s going to stop working for me. He went to the office of the workers and gave me a paper saying that I have to pay him a liquidation fee which is like unemployment i
Basically my main concern is because we never had a contract and also because I am not a business I am just a private individual and he’s just cleaning the grass.
Anyway I talk to the guy a little bit and he said he’ll take a compromise he said he’ll take 50,000 pesos Instead of 86,000. instead of 86,000.
So my question is ..is this legal?
Do I need to pay this?
How much time do I have to pay this? how many days months? Etc.
Since he offered me a compromise of 50,000 pesos is there anything that I need to do to sort of make it legitimate that he is excepting 50,000 to close the case so that he can I try to come back at me later on and say I didn’t pay them completely? Or so he can’t say I didn’t pay him at all? I can send the money by Carribe express so it’s documented.
Anybody who can offer me any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
I am attaching a photo of the paper that he gave me but I have blocked out the names.
view document here:
Document from Minestro De Trabajo
Thank hou