Has anyone ever been in this situation before? Currently I work as an IT contractor and am considered a full time employee (W2). We have multiple clients in different parts of the metro.
The way reimbursement for mileage works at my company now is that we are responsible for our own transportation to whereever the starting location is that day (depends on the client), but they will pay for any additional trips that occur in addition to that throughout the day.
The issue is, some of our clients are 25-40 miles away, which becomes a bit of a drive after awhile, especially during rush hour. I tried to live close to my job, but I'm finding that as an IT contractor, it's sort of an unrealistic dream because you don't know where your next job is going to be the next day.
At some point isn't the employer responsible for paying for travel expenses? I would think they'd have to be for the books to be correct if nothing else. Don't they have to document all business expenses? The irony is that up until 2009, my company did reimburse for some mileage. They said they would take the distance it takes for you to get to the client you spend the most time at (or the company headquarters if you don't spend more time at any one client) and then they'd reimburse for any miles travelled ontop of that. But this year they are no longer doing that, probably because of economic hard times.
The way reimbursement for mileage works at my company now is that we are responsible for our own transportation to whereever the starting location is that day (depends on the client), but they will pay for any additional trips that occur in addition to that throughout the day.
The issue is, some of our clients are 25-40 miles away, which becomes a bit of a drive after awhile, especially during rush hour. I tried to live close to my job, but I'm finding that as an IT contractor, it's sort of an unrealistic dream because you don't know where your next job is going to be the next day.
At some point isn't the employer responsible for paying for travel expenses? I would think they'd have to be for the books to be correct if nothing else. Don't they have to document all business expenses? The irony is that up until 2009, my company did reimburse for some mileage. They said they would take the distance it takes for you to get to the client you spend the most time at (or the company headquarters if you don't spend more time at any one client) and then they'd reimburse for any miles travelled ontop of that. But this year they are no longer doing that, probably because of economic hard times.