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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Oct. 13, 2007

Reimbursement Roulette

Employment Column - By Alisa M. Chevalier and Mani Sheik - A forthcoming decision from the California Supreme Court will decide whether employers can reimburse their workers' expenses in lump-sum payments.

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN

By Alisa M. Chevalier
and Mani Sheik


      Allowing flexibility in how employers go about reimbursing employees for the costs they incur while doing their jobs sounded like a pretty reasonable idea to the California Supreme Court.
      During the Sept. 6 oral arguments in Gattuso v. Harte-Hanks Shoppers Inc., the court seemed inclined to permit employers options for how ...

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