Court Opinion

ID: 9692193
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 15:46:30.637395+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:32.966816
License: Public Domain

Currie, J.
{dissenting). I respectfully dissent from the court’s opinion herein. If Balistrieri’s contract of employment, as reflected in the written receipts which he executed to Union Central Life for the advancements he received, had provided that he would repay the amount by which his advances exceeded commissions at the time he quit his job, such provision would unquestionably have been valid and not against public policy. Nevertheless, such a provision would have restricted Balistrieri’s freedom to seek other employment more than did the instant provision, which the court now holds invalid, because he could not have quit his job with Union Central Life without being liable to repay such amount.
Since an agreement to repay the amount by which advances exceed commissions at time one quits his job is valid and enforceable, it would seem that any agreement which requires such repayment only if the employee takes a job elsewhere in the same line of work within two years must of necessity also be valid.
I am authorized to state that Mr. Justice Hallows joins in this dissenting opinion.