Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-09-20 | Page 14 | Forfeit Contract is Declared Invalid

FORFEIT' CONTRACT I IS DECLARED TNVALIDj Any contract which an employ oo may I '' sin, forfeiting a portion of his salary if ' hp fails to pi ve. notice of intention to leave hip position, is held to be void, accord ac-cord tiiR- to an opinion submitted to the, ! state industrial commission yesterday hy : Attorney General Dan B. Shields. The j 'opinion resulted from a case in which an j employee of the Solvay Salt company was : refused a portion of his pay, it is alleged, I when he left the employ of the company 1 without having given due notice, according ac-cording to a.n agreement which he signed upon entering the employ of the company. com-pany. Another case was also reported to the conunisMon, in which bJ. G. Kulp, a minor, had sonic controversy with his employer aJid (uit his work, upon which he was held subject to forfeit by his employer. In both instances the contract is held to be void.