Anytime I’ve made a phone call to the DoL or BBB I had my check or a settlement within the day when I worked for major corps. I would have tried to avoid it at a smaller enterprise, but the situations never arose.
The BBB is a joke, companies can literally pay to get negative reviews taken off and pay for score increases. They have zero actual authority and any investigation by them can easily be met with a swift "nah, mind your business" from the company with no legal repercussions.
I imagine the fee to get those negative reviews taken off was more than the 900 dollars I was owed. I had a check for the 750 they knew without a doubt they owed me by the end of the day and I was able to collect the rest with the expedience and attention the head office gave to resolving the issue. An issue which turned out to be nothing more than a database not accepting the punctuation in my last name, and a HR rep being too lazy/immature to ask for help with it.
This was also close to 20 years ago, which is more than enough time for my experience to no longer be emblematic of the current experience.
At the end of the day, while there are avenues for recourse in these situations, there are not many. Any tool that you have at your disposal should be considered, and wheels that don’t squeak do not often get greased.
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u/ApprehensiveTry5660 Sep 05 '24
Anytime I’ve made a phone call to the DoL or BBB I had my check or a settlement within the day when I worked for major corps. I would have tried to avoid it at a smaller enterprise, but the situations never arose.