My boss signed me up for a seminar but doesn't think he should pay my salary or food while away.
He has booked the seminar and booked the hotel and thinks he doesn't need to pay by Salary while away or provide food money. I did not ask to go to this Seminar and rather not go if that means no paycheck during the time away from the office. How do tell him? He thinks I should be grateful about the money he spent on seminar and hotel, yet I did not ask to go.
1 answer | asked Jul 17, 2017 2:30 PM [EST] | applies to California
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You have a difficult choice. The law in California clearly requires you to be paid for the time you are in the seminar given the facts you have stated and be reimbursed for all reasonable expenses (Labor Code 2802) and this right is not waivable (Labor Code 2804.)
But it sounds like your boss thinks he is doing you favors, so may not react well to a complaint or if you refuse to go. Of course, retaliation would be illegal, but that won't help if you are unemployed and waiting for a trail.
You have three years from the date the expense was incurred or the wages not paid to bring a claim, so you may want to very carefully document all your conversations and detail the time you are at the seminar, and costs incurred, and bring the claim after you have found a new job.
Harvey Berger
Pope, Berger , Williams & Reynolds, LLP
619-234-1222
posted by Harvey Berger | Jul 21, 2017 10:38 PM [EST]
But it sounds like your boss thinks he is doing you favors, so may not react well to a complaint or if you refuse to go. Of course, retaliation would be illegal, but that won't help if you are unemployed and waiting for a trail.
You have three years from the date the expense was incurred or the wages not paid to bring a claim, so you may want to very carefully document all your conversations and detail the time you are at the seminar, and costs incurred, and bring the claim after you have found a new job.
Harvey Berger
Pope, Berger , Williams & Reynolds, LLP
619-234-1222
posted by Harvey Berger | Jul 21, 2017 10:38 PM [EST]
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