Employer refusing expenses claim because its late

[Deleted User]

sangie595 wrote: »

You missed out the word "repeatedly" - after a few other attempts with this one, I won't be offering any advice. There's only so many times someone can play the fiddle and make people dance.... Perhaps the best advice to the OP and his family is to stop p*****g off employers and you may find that managers get more reasonable.

Very funny I'm sure. If you don't want to offer advice then please dont waste everyone elses time on this thread.

Take a look at this posters posting history and you will see they rarely have a nice word to say about anyone. Sadly, there seem to be a few on this forum like this who are all too keen to jump on and start an argument for the sake of it.

BorisThomson

[quote=[Deleted User];73341120]Definitely submitted. No boss tends to not make any effort to help staff out when things go wrong for some reason.[/QUOTE]

Then you'll be able to prove it, won't you?

[Deleted User]

BorisThomson wrote: »

Then you'll be able to prove it, won't you?

I can pretty much

k3lvc

[quote=[Deleted User];73341168]I can pretty much[/QUOTE]

But 'Pretty much' won't cut it in the real world - have you proof that it was submitted and subsequently ignored ?

[Deleted User]

[quote=[Deleted User];73341120]Definitely submitted. No boss tends to not make any effort to help staff out when things go wrong for some reason.[/QUOTE]
If you can prove you submitted them within the time period, then I'm not sure why your boss wouldn't accept them unless they are under pressure from elsewhere.

Often expenses get 'sent back' and then need re-submitting. Is there an audit trail of any of this?

Every time I submit expenses I send my boss an email since I've never trusted any expense system.

FBaby

Are you supposed to submit every month but they will allow up to 3 months? If so, they might decide that you should have been submitting every month anyway.

Why is your boss unwilling to authorise if he has the authority to do so?

ReadingTim

This suggests you have a legal right to have "reasonable expenses necessarily incurred in the course of your employment" reimbursed. If the OP believes the expense was both reasonable and necessarily incurred in the couse of his employment he should seek legal advice and if appropriate, bring a claim against the company.

However, the advice also suggests it can be can be "time-consuming"
(and therefore expensive) to resolve a dispute over expenses, especially if there's a clear policy in place already - which it sounds like there is. It's probably also not conducive to good employee/employer relations, if not somewhat detrimental to continuing employment, so this is probably a fight the OP should think carefully about starting...

sangie595

[quote=[Deleted User];73341128]
Take a look at this posters posting history and you will see they rarely have a nice word to say about anyone. Sadly, there seem to be a few on this forum like this who are all too keen to jump on and start an argument for the sake of it.[/QUOTE]
Kettle, pot, black? You have repeatedly been offensive and downright nasty to people trying to help you. Not just here either. So if you find that people react badly to that, tough. You don't own the site and there was some very genuine advice in there - stop acting the way you do, and all sorts of people, including your manager, might get to like you. You treat people at work like toy treat people here - and like you have said you treat them at work - you can't be surprised when it comes back in spades.

And I'm not here to be "nice" - I tell people the truth, and if they don't like the truth, that's tough. You'll find more than a few who value being told the truth instead of misplaced tea and sympathy, or downright wrong advice!

Tigsteroonie

If you have evidence that the expenses submitted but were not approved, then I think you have grounds to complain. However - and I work in a team linked to this process at my employer - it is possible that the submission got "lost" due to a change in the details of the expected approver. So it might not be anybody's fault, and I wouldn't recommend you go in all guns blazing - perhaps enquire of the IT department how, if it was submitted 3 months ago, it's just reappeared as unsubmitted in your system?

BorisThomson

[quote=[Deleted User];73341168]I can pretty much[/QUOTE]

Then the next step would be to produce your pretty much evidence.

You need to post on the internet to be told that?