It Sales Star Wins $600k Lawsuit Against Oracle in Qatar – but Can't Collect!

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Link: IT sales star wins $600k lawsuit against Oracle in Qatar – but can't collect, because the Oracle he sued suddenly vanished [The Register]

 

In January last year, after four years of litigation, a former Oracle sales rep in Qatar won a lawsuit against the database giant to collect unpaid sales commission.

 

But when he tried to collect the court-awarded windfall, he found that Oracle was doing business under a new name, leaving him with a collection order against a business entity stripped of assets.

 

Alaa AlNaji worked for Oracle Systems Limited from May 2013 through June 2014 as a sales representative in Qatar. From what The Register understands of the case (numbered #339 in the local courts), Oracle refused to pay the contracted amount and insisted on a revised contract, a pattern seen in US commission disputes.

 

AlNaji refused to accept Oracle's terms and was terminated; he sued the IT behemoth in Qatar for the commission owed him.

 

In the US, Oracle has faced multiple lawsuits from sales reps claiming its contractual pay arrangements are coercive and shortchange employees. Some of these claims involve performance improvement plans that sales people contend are unjustified; others involve contract renewals allegedly structured to claw back commissions...