I am assistant manager at local hotel and my employer only pay me for milage i use my car for?

Question

He pays .55 cents per mile I usually end up with 80 to 100 miles a week driving for him doing his personal erns.

Taking his kids to schools

Taking his wife to doctor

paying his dmv fee

sending fedex and UPS for him

delivering papers for him to other companies

and buying breakfast for hotel every other day or so

Going to costco twice a month for hotel supplies

Plus he will send me to cities which are like 50 to 100 miles far from our location to other hotels locations to carry maps at construction sites

Plus I do all office work like sending fax, recieving, filling docs, calling vendors, paying invoces, doing payroll. employee time cards etc

He pays us $9 an hour plus tells us not to do over time. If their will be over time he tell us to move that over time to some other day and show as if regular hours. Like we worked M through Friday which is 40 hours and if i am 8 hours over move that to sunday on time card.

I feel he is exploiting me. When hired me he hired as assistant office assistant but now using for his personal work.

My question is Should i get paid for gas beside the milage? and if yes how i should calculate that?

Let say i used my car 20 miles for his ern he will pay me 20 times .55 cent whatever that is ? But should he pay gas seprate ? is thats how other employeers do in california?

Answer 1

.55 per mile is all your going to get.  Although law states(in california) that if you work over 8 hours in a day, or more than 40 hours in a week that shall be calculated as overtime.

Answer 2

$.55 per mile is what you are expected to get the employer could pay for gas instead in which case you would get paid a lot less.

at $.55 per mile you are being paid on an average car(20 mpg) $11.00 per gallon of gas used. on a car that gets good gas mileage(30 mpg) that is $16.50 per gallon of gas used. it is always better to get paid mileage then to get paid for gas and have to take the tax credit for mileage of your income taxes.

as far as overtime what is being asked is not legal in most situations. if you work overtime you should be paid accordingly. there are exceptions and exemptions to the labor laws and not all employers are covered by all labor laws but in general what your employer is doing in regard to overtime is most likely illegal. you can contact your states department of labor for assistance about the overtime.

Answer 3

mileage is ok ... what he's asking you to do with the overtime is very illegal.  id report that

Answer 4

He isn't legally required to reimburse you ANYTHING for miles.  When an employer does reimburse some rate for mileage, it includes gas.

But requiring you to falsify time records by moving overtime hours to another day/week is NOT legal.