Hello Personal Finance,
I apologize for formatting since I am on mobile.
My coworkers and I are all concerned about the travel policies our company has instituted over the past few years and feel as though we are being taken advantage of. I hope this is the correct thread for our post.
It is the office's policy to not pay our full time staff for all of the hours spent on our business trips. We are typically only paid for physically traveling during what is assumed as regular office hours (9am-5pm Monday through Friday), as well as if we are the driver of the car. If it is any other hour outside those times, or we are not driving, then we are not to report those hours as payable. The office considers that as our personal free time.
This is frustrating because the majority of our travel due to the nature of our work is done either later in the day after 5pm or on the weekends (not by our choice).
Once we have arrived at our business location, we are only paid for the hours we are physically working. The events we work are typically at night which causes us to spend the day before, and day of the event sitting in a hotel room. We are discouraged from leaving the hotel since we have to be ready to work in a moments notice. The major problem is that we are not paid for any of the standby time.
What usually happens is that I will be on a business trip for 48-72 hours and only be paid for 16 hours of time.
Is this legal? We are all full time employees with a permanent office, and full benefits etc (non-contractors). Please let me know if I need to provide further information.
Thank you for any advice.
Submitted February 11, 2017 at 10:45AM by helpPFplsthrowaway http://ift.tt/2khhia0
