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I would like to find out what others are doing with respect to a question concerning business travel. We sent one of our employees out of town for training. He drove his own vehicle. The trip to the t
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posted at 9/14/2010 11:48 AM EDT
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I would like to find out what others are doing with respect to a question concerning business travel. We sent one of our employees out of town for training. He drove his own vehicle. The trip to the training location was more than his regular drive to work - same with his return trip. Where he stayed was close to the training so he drove less those days than he would have had he been driving to the office.
If we look at the business trip as a whole, he drove less than he would have had he stayed and worked in town. Our travel policy does not address this but does say that employees should not gain nor lose financially when on business travel. How does your company handle this? Would you look only at the front and back ends of the trip and pay mileage for the difference, or would you look at the whole trip and not pay mileage? Or is there another way? The same situation would arise if an employee drives to the airport for business travel. Is the answer the same? |
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posted at 9/16/2010 3:09 AM EDT
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I would pay the extra mileage (over and above the mileage between the employee's home and the regular office at the beginning and end of the trip, and if there was extra mileage during the trip, I'd pay that too.
All of the mileage policies at all of the employers and clients I've worked for over the last 20 years have verbiage to this effect. |
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posted at 9/16/2010 8:51 AM EDT
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I agree with paying mileage. If anything, I could see subtracting out regular mileage to work on the two days that he actually drove. But I honestly wouldn't.
The only other exception I can think of would be is if this training was something the employee wanted, but didn't truly need to do his job (i.e. a professional conference).... then I would reconsider how much the employer wanted to reimburse. But if it was company business/company specific training, I would reimburse it all. |
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