Sergio CABANAS, Appellant,
v.
WOMACK & BASS, P.A., Appellee.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
*69 Stephen Cahen, Miami; Lawrence & Daniels and Adam H. Lawrence, Miami, for appellant.
Womack, Appleby & Brennan and Eric Colburn Sage, Ft. Lauderdale, for appellee.
Before NESBITT, GODERICH and SHEVIN, JJ.
SHEVIN, Judge.
Sergio Cabanas appeals a final summary judgment in his breach of employment agreement action against Womack & Bass, P.A. We reverse.
Cabanas was employed by Womack & Bass, P.A., on May 29, 1992. The firm orally promised Cabanas that after completing six months of probation he would receive a $5000 raise and a leased car at the firm's expense. Additionally, Cabanas was promised, as a bonus, ten percent of billings over $50,000 generated by Cabanas in the year, at the time the monies were collected.
On November 29, 1992, after six months had elapsed, the firm told Cabanas he would have to work for a full year before he would receive the salary increase or the car. In June 1993, the raise and the car were not provided. In September 1993, Cabanas left the firm with the understanding that bonus payments based on collected billings would continue. However, on March 4, 1994, the firm notified Cabanas by letter that it would remit no further bonus payments to him.
Cabanas filed a lawsuit in February 1995 to recover damages for breach of the agreement. Womack & Bass filed a motion for summary judgment asserting that the claims are barred by the two-year statute of limitations in section 95.11(4)(c), Florida Statutes (1995), and the statute of frauds. The trial court granted the motion.
In Nealon v. Right Human Resource Consultants, Inc.,
Neither is this claim barred by the statute of frauds. Contracts for employment which are terminable at will by either party for an indefinite period of duration do not fall under the statute of frauds. See Av-Med, Inc. v. French,
Based on the foregoing reasoning, we reverse the summary judgment and remand for further proceedings.
