Legal Question in Employment Law in Florida

Re: After tax, penalty deductions from a salaried employees wages

I assume you girlfriend is on salary and not paid overtime for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week. That is, her company has classified her position as exempt from the fair labor standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA is rather complex and the determination of which employees are exempt and which are hourly workers is difficult to do correctly if the company is not taking the task seriously. Salaried (exempt) workers should be paid 8 hours pay per day if they work less than 8 hours or more than 8 hours. However, if an exempt employee works no hours in a day it is legal for the company to dock them a days pay or make them take a sick day/vacation day. I do not understand your "after taxes" comment, it sounds very strange to me and I would like to see a copy of the pay stub or talk to you before commenting on that. Most companies do reimburse for miles driven, it is a deducable business expense, I hope you are keeps a log of miles and receipts so your accountant can try to find you a break at tax time for those expenses.