On November 1, I was interviewed for a sales position for Ardmore Nissan by an outside recruiting firm National Auto Academy by their company representative, Paul Colpin. I was accepted and trained for three days and on the last day November 3 it was announced at the end of the class that in order to be eligible to be employed by Ardmore Nissan that I had to pay immediately $698.00 or I could not start work on Novemberr 5. Reluctantly I paid the fee and started my first day on November 5. I reported to work and started studying and testing on product knowledge from November 5th to November 12. Then I was told by their General Manager, Tim Shields and their Sales Manager, Ann Hettinger that based on declining sales that they had hired too many salesman and I would be terminated. Both Tim and Ann assured me that my training pay of $400.00 would be directly deposited into my bank account, which they had all the forms from my bank to deposit funds on November 16. Not receiving the training pay as agreed, I sent a certified letter-return receipt indicating that they had not made the deposit. I waited for a second payroll period thinking that perhaps sometimes it may take two pay periods to receive the payroll. This was not the case as they never paid my wages as agreed. On December 1, a formal complaint was filled with the Pennsylvania, Department of Labor & Industry - Wage Complaint. Under rule "Wage Payment and Collection Law" Act of 1961, PL. 637, No. 329. Under this Act, Ardmore Nissan and employees can be held liable for Liquidated Damages (Section 10), and in addition under Section 11 (Criminal Remedies) and Section 11.1 (Criminal Penalties) (a) "The secretary or any employe, group of employes, labor organization or party to whom any type of wages is payable may institute prosecutions under this act". (c) Where such employer is a corporation, the president, secretary, treasurer or officers exercising corresponding functions shall be guilty of such summary offense." My advise to anyone thinking of becoming an employee or dealing with this company be aware of their unethical practices.
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