I did a janitorial job for a business local to me. Through their appreciation of my great service they asked if I knew someone who could pressure wash their parking lot. I referred them to a sub contractor in my network. He showed up the next day agreed on a price with the manager present and agreed to begin the next day. Early the next day the manager opened the shop, he works until the store closes and comes back the following morning to complete the job.
His mistake was he created an invoice after the job and had no information agreeing to the project in writing.
Two weeks go by and we haven't heard back from their accounts payable after numerous reminder emails. I finally reach through on the phone and the AP clerk tells me the issue has been escalated to her operations manager. I ask her to cc me on the message she will be sending him. Then I get a reply email that since the job was not approved verbally or in writing we will not be getting paid. After some back and forth it comes out the initial manager was not allowed to approve such a project so he lied to his superiors that he had only asked for a quote (shopping around). It's a blatant lie that I honestly wouldn't expect from a reputable business. So my questions is what legal proceedings can I initialize to recover the balance owed to me and my sub or at least get procur some type of stress for them since what they did is totally unethical.
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