Legal Question in Employment Law in California

I was terminated from sales job in ca approx a week ago. Due to this dismissal I was unable to submit my last expense report. My manager emailed me and said that if I do not verify certain expenses made on my corporate card he is going to consider them all 'personal' expenses and these charges will be sent to collections and thus negatively affect my credit. Is this a legal practice by the employer and am I responsible for completeling expense report after termination?? Thank you


Asked on 3/30/17, 12:39 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Of course you are responsible for completing your expense report. Your employer by law is only obligated to indemnify you from expenses related to work. If you refuse to document what expenses were work related, they have no obligation to pay them for you. No employer is obligated to cover expenses without documentation. It is not a matter of doing employment duties after termination, as you seem to be viewing it. It is a matter of doing what the law requires you to do, in order to take advantage of the law that requires your employer to cover business expenses. If you refuse to do that, they have every right to declare them all personal expenses and go after you for reimbursement.

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Answered on 3/30/17, 1:15 pm


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