Oracle, which requires salespeople to agree to binding arbitration to avoid costly disputes in court, is unhappy that an arbitrator ruled against it. So it is suing one of its own employees, applications account manager Felicia Wilson, in a New York court to undo the arbitrator's $257,335.79 award.

That's the amount Oracle withheld from Wilson's $616,302.31 commission payment for the company's fiscal 2014. It would have been $873,638.10 but for Oracle's insistence that Wilson's Individualized Compensation Plan limits commission sales credits from any single customer in excess of 250 per cent of the salesperson's quota in a given year. READ MORE