Common use of Split Routes Clause in Contracts

Split Routes. In the event that the Employer shall split the route of any driver-salesman, such driver-salesman shall receive, in addition to the amount actually earned on such route, as split, for the first week after the split, an amount equal to the weekly loss in commission due to the split, as herein defined. Thereafter this amount shall be progressively reduced each succeeding week by an amount obtained by dividing such weekly loss in commission due to the split, as herein defined, by- one-third (1/3) the number of quarts lost in the case of retail business, and by one-fifth (1/5) the number of quarts lost in the case of semi-wholesale business, due to the split, as herein defined, such progressive weekly reductions to continue until the amount equal to the weekly loss in commission due to the split, as herein defined, has been exhausted. The “ weekly loss in commission due to the split” shall mean the weekly commission on the average weekly sales to the cus­ tomers taken off the route for the four (4) weeks prior to the split; and the “ number of quarts lost due to the split” shall mean the average daily number of quarts delivered to such customers during such four