Attorneys for Unreimbursed Expenses and Unpaid Vacation
Hinton Alfert Sumner & Kaufmann's employment law group represents workers who have experienced unreimbursed business expenses and vacation pay. We have recovered millions of dollars for employees through both class actions and individual lawsuits in California and other states. Some of the issues in our cases are listed below.
Business Expenses
California prohibits employers from making their workers pay for business expenses. For instance, if you use your car or cell phone to perform your job — as many outside sales reps or delivery drivers do — your employer may be required to reimburse you for the cost of driving the car or using the phone. California also protects workers from having to pay for many of the costs of uniforms, tools, equipment, or ordinary business losses such as cash shortages, shrinkage and breakage. Our employment lawyers have recouped millions of dollars in expenses paid by outside salespersons and others who drive their cars for work.
Vacation Pay
California, Illinois, and Massachusetts protect employees' earned vacation benefits. For instance, some state laws may require an employer to "cash out" any unused vacation when an employee leaves the company. Depending on which state you work in, it may also be unlawful for your employer to pay you vacation benefits only at the end of a year or to require you to work a minimum number of hours in a year before earning vacation. As vacation policies are usually similar across large segments of a company's workforce, employers using unlawful policies can save thousands if not millions of dollars a year by depriving workers of earned vacation. Hinton Alfert Sumner & Kaufmann's lawyers challenge these practices to return the unpaid vacation pay to the workers.
Our employment lawyers have teamed up with lawyers in California and Illinois to recover unpaid vacation from temporary staffing agencies, restaurant and department store chains, and other large employers.
Examples of Our Cases
Our unreimbursed expenses and unpaid vacation pay cases have involved issues such as:
- Outside salespeople who paid for their own gas, insurance, other auto costs, cell phones, and home office equipment. (read more about these verdicts and settlements and ongoing cases)
- Shuttle, truck, and delivery drivers who pay all costs for vehicles, fees, workplace insurance, uniforms and vehicle decals. (read more about these verdicts and settlements and ongoing cases)
- Vacation policies that required employees with vacation pay to "use it or lose it." (read more about these verdicts and settlements and ongoing cases)
- Loss of earned vacation because employees terminated employment before anniversary date or close of the fiscal or calendar year. (read more about these verdicts and settlements and ongoing cases)
For additional information about unpaid vacation and business expenses, please contact us or call 877-639-1737 toll-free to speak with a Walnut Creek employment lawyer.
