[whateveracct]

Nothing in any of my FTE contracts has anything beyond "at-will." No explicit "money for such and such services rendered."

There's literally no fraud here for a typical American FTE at-will employment arrangement. The worst-case scenario is getting fired from the job with no additional repercussions.

[ojilles]

Does it not state a minimum amount of hours worked? If so, there’s a reasonable argument for fraud?

($x for y hours, but y hours were not delivered, only a fraction was.)

Just so I’m clear; I don’t think that works at all in a knowledge worker environment, but tell that to the judge?

[whateveracct]

There's no mention of hours - only yearly salary, employed at-will.

[ojilles]

Gotcha (saw similar reply elsewhere in this thread). Ran into a US-EU difference here it seems like.