Do You Know the Two Biggest Tricks Employers Use to not Pay Your Expenses Under California Overtime Law?
If you can spare 3 minutes to read this article, you may find you are entitled to hundred or thousands of dollars from your current or past employer.
Trick 1: Employers Make You Travel with No Reimbursement to Keep Your Job
At one time, it was common practice for an employee not to receive overtime for traveling expense. The employee was required to provide their own traveling expense when traveling on business. Employers would commonly make this travel as a condition of employment. This was a trick and was unfair. Times have changed!
There were few companies that offered to overtime pay or traveling expense. The Labor Department is currently enforcing a new law that will change the way employers handle travel expense and overtime pay. If this new addition to the California Labor Law Overtime is passed, employers will be required to pay overtime and reimbursement for job related travel, this includes for job related travel, lodging and meals. This new overtime law will be a great benefit for business travelers employed by companies within the State of California.
In 2005, a California Court of Appeal stated that employers are allowed to increase their employees pay in place of providing travel reimbursements as long as there is a mutual agreement between the employer and employee. However, many employees still argue that they should receive overtime pay or reimbursement for travel.
Trick 2: Employers Only Pay For Travel Time While in the Air or in Transit
Any time spend working for your employer, you are entitled to payment. This means time traveling from site to site, running errands before of after work, even getting breakfast for the crew.
If you feel you are not getting your employment expenses paid, you need to call a lawyer and fast that is experienced in California Overtime Pay.
By: Kathleen Armitage
Kathleen Armitage is a freelance journalist who frequently contributes and comments on California labor issues. Learn more by visiting web sites such asLabor Attorney and California Labor Law
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