Garden leave for commission-based pay employee
I am a primary care physician working in a practice where my pay is based on productivity. I recently provided my employer with advance notice of my resignation as I have purchased a new practice. I was only required to give 60 days notice, but gave double that because I thought it would be helpful for the employer to be able to make arrangements for my departure (hiring new doctor, etc). However, today I was notified that I have been placed on “paid administrative leave” for the next 60 days. According to the notice, all restrictive covenants would be in place during this period. My understanding is that the upside to garden leave is that you get paid, but with my compensation structure, if I don’t work, I don’t get paid (with the exception of reimbursements for services previously rendered).
Can they do this? I can’t find anything about how this applies to non-salaried employees. There’s nothing in my employment contract that covers this— just restrictive covenants. For 60 days, they’re preventing me from working, while not paying me anything other than what I’m already owed. Trying to decide if I should just go ahead and quit, which in that case, I would not receive any reimbursements for past services effective immediately. Any insight appreciated!
Georgia, USA