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Originally posted by RockDaddy
If it were a US company I think something like this would be covered under the labor laws and you would start by calling your states dept. of labor (or whatever it is) and work from there up.
Where ever their business is located might actually have some labor laws itself, maybe they don't pay their taxes, etc..
If I was a "shaved" webmaster, I would start working the phones and see just how interested different agencies in their country actually might be. (if I was missing enough money from them to make it worth my time)
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Actually labor laws don't apply here.
I worked for a car dealer once, and we caught him cooking the books in order to pay us less $$ in commission.
Alot of us called the state labor board and/or local attorneys, all of whom told us that "labor laws" don't really appy to commissioned employees.
And in this circumstance, you aren't even a commissioned "employee". In other words, you don't have a written or unwritten "employement contract" with any of your sponsors. You are an independent contractor, similar to an advertising agency that a company would hire to do commercials or print ads for its products.
I'm not saying that you don't have a case at all (I'm not a lawyer so how would I know) but I really don't think "labor law" is going to help you very much in a situation like this.