[Rathji]

My wife is working from home and has been for 9 months now. Her contract specifies that she will be provided with the computer equipment etc needed to do the job, but that she must provide an Internet connection and phone line.

For the last 2 weeks, she has had a technical problem which is preventing her from working. Initially they blamed it on our ISP and network congestion, until we proved them wrong as the program works on any other computer in the house except the work supplied computer.

Before we proved this, they refused to pay her for her scheduled hours, since they felt it was our problem that we needed to resolve. Now that we have proven them wrong they still are refusing to pay her for the time, so she is not getting paid for 2 weeks, including the countless hours she spent troubleshooting the problem.

Am I out to lunch in thinking that she needs to be paid for this time? The company is based out of the US, if that matters.