Managing Principal Maura Greene was quoted in Lawyer’s Weekly on August 20, 2025, in an article entitled “Judge rejects Wage Act claim for unpaid travel Commissions.” In this case, the plaintiff sought unpaid commissions for trips she had booked for a travel agency. Attorney Greene, who handles Wage Act cases, was quoted as follows in the article:
But Maura A. Greene, an employment lawyer in Boston, pointed out that while the Wage Act is very favorable to plaintiffs, here a mutual understanding by the parties outside the contract allowed the defendant to prevail.
“Where it was undisputed that the agency only received commissions when a trip was completed, the court found that any trips that the agent booked, but were not completed, were not commissions that were ‘definitely determined’ and ‘due and payable,’” Greene said. “It’s a reminder that in unpaid commission cases, any undisputed fact showing an unfulfilled contingency for a commission can turn the plaintiff-friendly Wage Act in the defendant’s favor.”
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