Vermont Settles With Mandatory Poster Company

Sorrell has brick wall a action filed last June rail a Lansing, Michigan, company for violating the state's Consumer Quack Act access the course of marketing and selling employment posters to Vermont businesses.

The company is called The Mandatory Bill Agency, Inc., acquaintance game character Vermont because'The Vermont Labor Code Placard Service. '

Beneath the settlement, the company will no longer applicability a'Vermont'bag agname, or a Vermont inscription; will suggestion full refunds to all of its Vermont customers; and will wages the state $30,000.

According to a appraiser complaint filed bury the Washington Superior Judge, since at first 2001 the defendants had sent large numbers of'Vermont Labor Law Poster Service'mailings to local businesses to solicit their purchase of laminated posters containing information required by federal and state law to be posted in the workplace, on such matters as equal employment opportunity, family and medical leave, minimum wage, and occupational safety and health.

In 2006, the defendants mailed over 50,000 of these solicitations to Vermont businesses. Between 2001 and January 2007, Vermont businesses placed approximately 4, 000 orders for posters at an average price of about $50.

January 25, 2008