Legal Question in Business Law in Michigan

Reimbursement

I went away for a two week business trip as required by my job. We have a current reimbursement policy in place for milage based on the IRS rating of 50.5 cents per mile. I have emails attesting to this fact.

I came back from the trip and started going over the trip paperwork. I was told since I would be gone for two weekends that I would be given 4 ''make up days''. Afterwards, I was informed that since I did not ''work'' on 3 of the days that I would be given a single makeup day to replace the one day I did work.

In addition, as we went over the milage I was informed that they would not reimbursement for both gas and the IRS rate for milage. This was always done by the job before on two previous trips. In fact, I was told they would either do a direct reimbursement of gas charges and only those charges or milage reimbursement but not at the ''inflated IRS rates'' that are currently in place. When I specified that the company has always done this in the past my boss looked at me and indicated that the cost was never this high and 1200$ was a bit much to try and reimburse since I would be making money off the trip. I now have more then 300$ in repair costs to my vehicle because of the trip.

What are my options!?


Asked on 6/25/08, 2:10 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Timothy Klisz Klisz Law Office, PLLC

Re: Reimbursement

You are walking a very thin line. Assuming you are an at will employee, any further griping could result in your termination, legally. I would try and take it up with HR, and try to document what the written policy is. Otherwise, it might not be worth the consequences. Visit www.kliszlaw.com for more information or to contact me. Tim Klisz

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Answered on 6/25/08, 3:31 pm


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