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From: Buddenbrooks on 16 Jan 2010 13:24

"Roland Perry" <roland(a)perry.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> What is probably most equitable is the employee paying off his credit card
> bill the day he gets the money from the company (but in fact that's just
> the company lending the bankers the money).

The company I work for now has had different views on credit cards.

For years gating a company credit card went on grade rather than need. So
a manager that never left his office would get one
and a field engineer running up expenses most working days would not.

Now everyone who may have expenses must have one!

The change has come about as the company have identified expenses as a
controllable impact on the bottom line. The credit card company the group
uses has internet access to the accounts database so that a detailed
analysis of expenses can be made.

The employee is still responsible for paying the bill and claiming the money
from the company, but they do cover late payment fees.

We are not permitted to use the card for personal use, as this would mess up
the statistics, and have privacy issues as the company would have visibility
of it.

From: Theo Markettos on 16 Jan 2010 16:15
Buddenbrooks <knightstemplar(a)budweiser.com> wrote:
>
> Do they still accept a 'free' method?

Visa Electron or Carte Bleue:
http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Book/paymentoptions.html

Theo
From: Neil Williams on 17 Jan 2010 13:22
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:02:36 -0000, "Buddenbrooks"
<knightstemplar(a)budweiser.com> wrote:

>The first firm I travelled with decided
>a. All travel expenses must be paid for on the travelers credit card.
>b. Expense claim shall not be submitted until the credit card bill showing
>the expenses has been settled.
>
> This was because they did not consider it fair for an employee to benefit
>from company money while the expense to the employee had not occurred.

But they did, presumably, think it fair for the company to benefit
from the employee's money after the expense had occurred. (No company
I've worked for has managed to consistently approve and pay expenses
in the narrow window allowed for the settlement of a credit card bill,
nor would one generally expect this to be feasible in a company of any
size).

Doesn't sound like a company I'd want to work for. If the company
wanted that situation "fairly", perhaps they could have considered
company-settled corporate cards. Though it does sound like they
wouldn't trust their employees for that either.

>That also went with the company rule that no holiday was confirmed until
>close of play on the day before the requested dates.
>So bookings were at employee risk.

While I'm sure pretty much every company reserves the right to cancel
holiday bookings (never happened to me), any company that does so
repeatedly and without *very* good reason isn't one I would want to
work for. (Recognising exceptions like the Police where sometimes an
emergency that occurs can genuinely require it with little other
sensible option).

>The HR director who wrote the rules left shortly after from stress induced
>by employees declining to incur any expenses.

Tee-hee. As soon as I was able to do so, I imagine I would decline to
be employed any longer by such a company.

Neil

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