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Employer doesn't want to pay me for non-ordinary travel (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by RION@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I had to travel over twice my normal commute to get to the location of an all-day event which is highly unusual for me. Now our finance person is saying I "don't get paid for travel", which I would agree with if it was my ordinary commute and not over an hour! Funny thing is I usually get reimbursed for ride share (except the tip 🙄) but I opted for public transit this time because I didn't want to bother with the reimbursement process and half expected them to stiff me...

Mostly just venting, but if anyone has a legal source more directly talking about this under FLSA that would be swag. A lot of stuff is couched in "travel to another city" which isn't technically true in my case

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

i dunno what the deal is, but i think the last resort ends up being claiming unreimbursed travel expenses for work on taxes at like 60 cents a mile or whatever the federal rate is.

which is generally a shit arrangement, mostly.

one would expect there to be a rule about expecting employees to cover transit to infrequent/uncommon remote locations out of pocket, but even among the chiseling orgs i worked for they didn't balk at throwing me the $20-30 bucks for some rando trip out if town they wanted me to go on.