Money Moral Dilemma: Should I give my employer the compensation for my delay?

Amiga22

In my opinion it's your compensation for your wasted time so keep it.

Melancholie

GothicStirling wrote: »

Maybe me being a little dense, but if the company paid for the train ticket (I imagine through the company credit card), wouldn't any compensation then be paid straight back onto the card, so the employee wouldn't see any of it anyway.

No, it's not refunded to the payment card. I was delayed recently and applied for Delay Repay. I was sent a cheque for £99. I'd actually have rather had it paid back to the card I used as I now have the inconvenience of getting to the bank to pay the cheque in! But that wasn't an option.

Malthusian

Assuming the OP was still able to complete their work despite the delay, the OP has suffered, not the company. OP keeps the compensation. Easy.

For extra piece of mind ask your manager if you should give it to the company, they will almost certainly say no and be very taken aback that someone would have enough honesty and slightly confused loyalty to even think of it. You will get some brownie points for being a good worker bee and you will still have the £50.

Kernow666

thinks it time to boycott this ridiculous thread


am waiting for I found a fiver in the street next should I keep it

Skyhigh

Theft is theft, even if it's 'white collar crime'.

If your employer paid for the ticket, the compensation is theres. Compensation is paid against ticket value, which you haven't paid for.

Compensation is for *failure to deliver service as agreed*, demonstrated by the ticket purchase. It is not for 'time wasted'.

If you think you need compensation for you time, pick it up with your company.

Why risk your job for nearly nothing?

(Compensation is usually paid in vouchers in the name of the ticket purchaser, your company. So, you're also breaching the voucher terms by using them I suspect.)

Oddly, I had this last week. Voucher went straight to finance.

John_Gray

Obviously the compensation is due to the person inconvenienced.
There is no effect one way or the other on the company who paid for the ticket.

But is it a taxable benefit for the employee?

pleasedelete

The simple answer is that it depends on your company policy.

As someone who gets thousands a year on delay repay (£700 last month ish) I never pay mine to the company but a previous company required a repayment if it was a full refund (and back then that was in cash) but not if it was delay repay vouchers.

Check the policy. Not worth losing a job over. I know some companies have recently changed their policy now that East Coast is giving cash for delay repay and not vouchers.

Takeaway_Addict

John_Gray wrote: »

Obviously the compensation is due to the person inconvenienced.
There is no effect one way or the other on the company who paid for the ticket.

But is it a taxable benefit for the employee?

People keep saying this but what if the employer pays for the time travelled? It is them that has had to pay more due to failure to keep toa contract by the transport company

DaveA54

In this case, keep it.

Your company paid for the journey, which was completed, so they (via you) received the service which they paid for and are therefore satisfied. The train company is offering compensation for the inconvenience and possibly additional expense that you as an individual incurred. Chances are your company won't have a process for accepting the money from you anyway.

If it were a refund on the ticket price, they it would rightly belong to your company.

duchy

Fitzmichael wrote: »

Your argument is right: the money is meant to compensate the passenger for the inconvenience. I pride my self on old-fashioned honesty: keep the money. If you told your employer, I think they'd be surprised and, if they asked you for it, I'd be amazed.

The only exception to this is if the company's own travel policy says otherwise. Most companies with corporate travel have a schedule of travel policies that include things like class of travel, who gets the frequent flyer miles - if delay payments aren't mentioned in the document - then keep it -if they are you're probably risking gross misconduct allegations.