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Unwanted - cost of personal fuel to be withheld from my paycheck

I work at a consulting firm where the vast majority of employees are on salary, and work at temporary customer jobsites throughout each day, and have no permanent place of work provided by the employer.

Each employee uses their personal vehicle to perform their job and to travel from site to site, and then they get reimbursed by the company for the use of their personal vehicle.

The company is changing their mileage reimbursement program from a flat rate per mile driven between work locations (25.5 cents per mile) to using a fuel card system.

Here’s the dilemma, they are forcing the employee to use the fuel card to not only pay for their work related fuel, but also for all of their personal fuel as well. They are saying that 100% of the fuel for the personal vehicle used for work must be paid for using their fuel card, then they are going to subtract the work related fuel from the overall cost of fuel, and withhold the difference from our paychecks.

My concern over this is that I share my car with my wife, so I am not in sole control over the use of the car. Is it legal for a company to dictate how someone can choose to pay for their personal cost of fuel for non work related purposes? Especially when that extends to the spouse of their employee and how they are choosing to pay for fuel? Also can the company force employees to allow them to pay for their personal fuel and then withhold that personal expense from their paychecks?

My fear is that my personal use of my vehicle will be held captive, as my percentage of work related vehicle use is much lower than other people in the company compared to my personal use. I might be put in a situation where I have cash flow problems because I am losing the ability to choose how I pay for my personal fuel costs, and will never see the money in my paycheck that the company had originally promised to pay me.

Any advice or suggestion of how to deal with this dilemma would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

0 answers  |  asked Jun 1, 2009 10:18 PM [EST]  |  applies to Georgia

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