Commuting expenses and clients refusal to pay..?

[Xil3]

Timesheets may show travel expenses incurred as a result of travelling between client sites or hotel accommodation as a result of working late at night which is normal. It is NOT normal to be paid travel expenses for commuting or hotel expenses if you work away from home (there are ways of claiming some of these back legally via ltd.co/brolly.) If that were the case however, you should have charged your client the time it took to travel from home and v.v. as well - at least that would have been consistent! I am not saying you are taking the proverbial here, but you are skating on thin ice. In my opinion.

I clearly stated that it was a commuting expense on the time sheet which they signed off. Plus they should of brought this up as an issue at the beginning and not 4 months later.

[BoredBloke]

A lot of people who have signed off the work of fiction I tend to submit as a timesheet don't tend to take much notice of what they are signing for. I have a similar term to yours in my contract and I took it to mean that they would pay expenses to places other than the main site where I was to work.

Yes it's bad that they let it go on for 4 months, but you could easily have asked in month 1 if you were allowed to claim these expenses.

[Dow Jones]

It's NOT in the contract

As previous posters and also yourself very correctly stated it is NOT in the contract. This will be the evidence produced in a legal dispute.

[DimPrawn]

If you were as brilliant as DimPrawn you'd kick the office door of the owner and leave it in 5 minutes with this problem sorted and a hefty payraise.

and blow job from his secretary.

HTH

[BoredBloke]

and blow job from his secretary.

HTH

But would she take her teeth out first?

[milanbenes]

'Just recently... the penny pinching & exploitative owner of the company I am a contractor at noticed the expenses I was claiming and told my agency that he refuses to pay.... even after management had already signed off on it.'

and herein lies the problem

contract to noddy SME's and expect these kinds of problems

lesson for the future avoid noddy SME's and only contract to blue chip clients

all the best,

Milan.

[Xil3]

A lot of people who have signed off the work of fiction I tend to submit as a timesheet don't tend to take much notice of what they are signing for. I have a similar term to yours in my contract and I took it to mean that they would pay expenses to places other than the main site where I was to work.

Yes it's bad that they let it go on for 4 months, but you could easily have asked in month 1 if you were allowed to claim these expenses.

That shouldn't be my responsibility... they should be held responsible for what they sign. Based on the contract is clearly states that I can claim expenses that they authorized, which in this case they did.

[Xil3]

'Just recently... the penny pinching & exploitative owner of the company I am a contractor at noticed the expenses I was claiming and told my agency that he refuses to pay.... even after management had already signed off on it.'

and herein lies the problem

contract to noddy SME's and expect these kinds of problems

lesson for the future avoid noddy SME's and only contract to blue chip clients

all the best,

Milan.

Yea, I already told myself that I'd never work for a small company like this again.

[BoredBloke]

That shouldn't be my responsibility... they should be held responsible for what they sign. Based on the contract is clearly states that I can claim expenses that they authorized, which in this case they did.

No it is the responsibility of both of you. You should have asked what expenses were covered and what were not. Most of the coments on here seem to go along with my understanding of that term i.e. they will pay travel expenses if they require you to travel to somewhere other than your main site. From thier perspective it probably looks like you have been pulling a fast one.

[Dow Jones]

Blue chips

Milan has worked for a lot of blue chips like:
McDonalds, KFC, Burger King, Pizza Express

PS Only joking!