Employee Expense Reimbursements: Why the Economy Is Forcing You To Get Up To Speed on the Rules--Now
Employer Resource Institute Audio Conference
Originally presented on September 11, 2008
10:30 a.m. to Noon (Pacific)
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Despite the ailing economy, employees continue to travel, which means you continue to be on the hook for expense reimbursements.
While employees have always been entitled to recoup these expenses, they're a lot more vocal now about wanting their money ASAP. And if you drop the ball, you could find yourself in court. Several class actions have recently been filed in California courts by disgruntled employees who claim their employers failed to reimburse them for travel and business expenses.
Good intentions aren't enough. California has confusing and sometimes even contradictory regulations regarding employee expense reimbursements. It's easy to get tripped up by details such as calculating the correct mileage rate and deciding whether to pay actual travel expenses or standard per diems. And, a new set of expense reimbursement regulations introduced in 2007 by the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement raised as many new questions as it answered.
Listen to this in-depth audio conference. Our expert—a California-based employment attorney who counsels clients on these rules—will share practical advice to help you understand and follow the state's complicated expense reimbursement regulations. She'll review the basic dos and don'ts of setting policies for your employees, tracking their expense claims, and handling the actual reimbursement payments. Plus, you can submit your specific questions via phone or email.
You And Your Colleagues Will Learn:
A "plain English" explanation of the California Labor Code provisions that require employers to indemnify their workers for job-related expenses
The types of travel expenses you must reimburse employees for, from mileage and lodging to incidental costs such as tips and parking
What California's regulations say about simply increasing your employees' pay instead of dealing with their itemized travel reimbursements
How to handle mileage reimbursements—from tracking employees' mileage and picking the correct reimbursement rate, to responding to workers who claim their actual driving costs were higher than the usual mileage rates
Whether you should pay employees' actual business travel expenses (such as meals and lodging), follow the standard IRS expense allowances, or use IRS per-diem rates
Your notification requirements under California law—what you must tell your workers before they travel on business
The deadlines for reimbursing employees for the travel expenses they've incurred, and the consequences if you miss them
Which reimbursement-related records the state requires you to hang onto—and what you must include on the pay stubs when you issue reimbursement checks to your workers
About Your Speaker:
Joanne Burgill, Esq., is a partner in the law firm Jones & Burgill in San Francisco. She advises clients on many different aspects of labor and employment law, ranging from discrimination and harassment issues to family and medical leave, employee discipline and termination, and immigration rules. She served formerly as an attorney with the California Department of Industrial Relations. She earned her law degree at the University of California at Berkeley.
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