Legal Question in Employment Law in Minnesota

Paying a freelancer overseas
I own a freelance business and gave a trial assignment to a freelance writer. She ended up not agreeing with my contract so is not going to work with me. I still intend to pay her for the trial. She has stated that she wants it in a personal check/ paper form. She lives in Malaysia. I offer Paypal, and she accepts it, and was planning on taking payment this way until she got upset at me over the contract. Now she is demanding that I mail the check - the malicious tone of her email makes me believe she is doing this just to inconvenience me, as Paypal was what she wanted before. Although I told her writers can choose their method of payment, would it be out of line to me to just Paypal her the money and ignore her request to mail it? She is not, after all, working for me. I do not want to pay postage to Malaysia and I do not want to send her my personal check as I do not trust her. I also am unwilling to get a money order as I believe she is doing this solely to inconvenience me, and I just want to get it over with. So, basically, can I pay her how I want to (Paypal) and then cease all communication, or does she have a legal issue against me if I do that?

Asked on 2/20/08, 11:49 am

David Anderson Anderson Business Law LLC

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Re: Paying a freelancer overseas

Call to discuss further. If orig. Agreement was to do paypal, then you would be off the hook.

I would NOT at this point send a personal check for security reasons.

Paypal or Intl. M.O. Only.

Answered on 2/20/08, 12:41 pm

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